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Review the article titled “Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen
Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It”,located here.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
Determine the fundamental challenges that organizations face in
general in regard to protecting organizational assets and
information.
Specify the red flag(s) that Target overlooked or ignored before
the retail attack and give your opinion as to why Target
overlooked or ignored the red flag(s).
Determine the main actions that Target took after the breach
occurred and evaluate the efficiency of such actions.
Conclude the main reasons why the attack on Target occurred.
Give your opinion as to whether or not the attack was mainly due
to the poor infrastructure or the inability of management to act
accordingly. Justify your response.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and
other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12),
with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must