Information Technology Breach (Term Paper Sample)

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Information Technology within an organisation is very critical for the overall running and success of the company. The IT controls need to be monitored to ensure no security breach of data and information from the system. The breach of the security controls will lead to leakage of very vital information from the company to the public or unauthorised persons.
The main case study to be discussed will be based on the hacking of Amazon-Twitch. The result was like a result of the less secure passwords. The attacked was announced on the company’s blog and emails were sent to all the esteemed users of the system. Then a team was formed to carry out investigation and come up with a solution on how to extend and increase the security all over the board.
The team ultimately after an intensive research, said that all the passwords were to be reset due to detection of unauthorised access to the Twitch user information of the accounts. The team also concluded that email that will be sent to users will have cryptographic protections on the passwords. Based on this the conclusion was substantial to control the security breach but on addition the cryptographic protections on the passwords should be tested for their strength. The process will enable the company to be able to detect faults where the breach of the system may occur (Cavusoglu & University o...