Case Study: The Home Depot Data Breach

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Case Study: The Home Depot Data Breach
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1Case Study: The Home Depot Data Breach
Synopsis/Executive Summary
Credit card information security breach have become a very common issue recently and may
retail companies as if the Home Depot Department are facing such problems every year.
However, with proper preventive security measures such incidents could have been avoided. In
the September of 2014, the Home Depot Department had faced such information breach and data
regarding millions of credit cards had been compromised. The company faced huge loss.
Investigation of this case has resurfaced major faults in the system of the company, which are the
reasons of this breach. The case study of this company is based on the problem and the
alternative solutions, which are best answers to this problem of the company.

2Case Study: The Home Depot Data Breach
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Findings...........................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
Major reasons of the Breach........................................................................................................4
The alternative solutions to prevent such breach problems.........................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5