You are the CISO (and Incident Response manager) for this organization. Your tas

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You are the CISO (and Incident Response manager) for this organization. Your task is to prepare a brief explanation for your organization’s board of directors, describing & discussing:
What happened.
The impact of what happened.
Why it happened.
The likelihood of it happening again What must be done to prevent it from happening again. (Remediation plan)

(data made public-2/6/2014
Name- The Home Depot
location- Atlanta, Georgia
Approx records-30000
Incident- Three Home Depot employees were arrested for allegedly stealing personal information of some 300 employees, and were initially detected last fall and those employees whose files were notified of the breach. One of the three employees was caught using her Home Depot email to send the stolen information. Security investigators fear that this breach may have affected as manay as 20,000 individuals. Information stolen included Social Security numbers and birthdates. Allegedly the employees opened numerous fraudlent accounts with the stolen personal information. UPDATE (5/30/2014): Originally it was reported that up to 20,000 individuals may have been affected by this security breach. The number has now been increased to 30,000 individuals may have been affected. The first report that came out reported three Home Depot employees were involved, but according to the disclosure document sent on behalf of The Home Depot Corporation, one individual was arrested and The Home Depot will seek prosecution of the individual to the fullest extent of the law. Information Source: Media

Explanation / Answer

Individual personal information was stolen effecting almost 30,000 people.

Individual privacy lost due to the leakage of personnel data.

A strong data management system should be implemented to prevent such issiues.

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