Research Essay and Case Study on Information Security

Research essay and case
study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
1) Web for news on security breaches of computer which occurred during April-August 2015-
2018. Prepare report and focus on what problem was, how, why it occurred and what are
effective solutions...................................................................................................................1
2) Asynchronous I/O activity is problem with many memory protection schemes, consisting
base/bounds and paging..........................................................................................................3
PART B............................................................................................................................................5
1) 2011 Sony PlayStation Network outage case.....................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Information security refers to practice of preventing an unauthorized access, disclosure,
modification, use and recording of information. Data or information can be in the form of
physical or electronic. The main purpose to design Information security is to protect an integrity,
confidentiality and also availability of data with any malicious intentions. Under this, mention
report will be discuss about the computer security beaches which occurred and focus on problem
and their solutions (Datoo, 2018). There will be discussion about the asynchronous input and
output activity with several memory protection schemes. The case of 2011 Sony PlayStation
Network on web will be mention in this given report in detailed manner.
PART A
1) Web for news on security breaches of computer which occurred during April-August 2015-
2018. Prepare report and focus on what problem was, how, why it occurred and what are
effective solutions
Data breach scandals are problems for major organizations all around the world. As the
loss of personal data of the users can be used by the hacker for any illegal activities without their
permission. This is happening because of increase in numbers of skilful hackers to get the
personal data without permission to full-fill personal needs. Companies like Google, Facebook,
Domino's Pizza, and many more which are well known for their securities has also been
witnessed for data breaches. Some of the big data breaches occurred between April-August
2015-2018 are:
S.R. No. Entity Year Record Method Organization type
1 Marriott International 2018 500000000 Hacked Hotel
2 Under armour 2018 150000000 Hacked Consumer goods
3 Quora 2018 100000000 Hacked Question & Answer
4 My Heritage 2018 92283889 Unknown Genealogy
5 Facebook 2018 50000000 Poor security Social network
6 Equifax 2017 143000000 Poor security Financial, credit
7 Uber 2017 57000000 Hacked Transport
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