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MGMT 221 Week 4 Discussion | Assignment Help | Embry Riddle Aeronautical
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Week 4.5 Discussion Modules 3 & 4
This discussion spans two modules:
· Initial post due by the end of Module 3.
· At least two replies to other students due by day 4 of Module 4.
Follow the guidelines in the Two-Week Discussion Requirements section.
Assignment
In 2017, one of the biggest cyber-attacks ever to occur was caused by the failure of
the management and IT staff at a well-known, very large enterprise to take the
necessary action to prevent the hacking the personal information of over 800 million
customers. The ability of the black hats to penetrate the technology portal at mega-
giant Equifax and steal personal information was determined to be the simple failure
to apply a patch to fix a known risk referred to as the Apache Struts vulnerability.
An alert had been promulgated and the employees at Equifax knew of the
vulnerability, and even ran some scans, but never applied the patch that would have
prevented the reconnaissance and penetration of the data farm at Equifax. The credit-