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Research Report #1: Data Breach Incident Analysis and Report

Scenario

Padgett-Beale Inc.’s (PBI) insurance company, CyberOne Business and Casualty Insurance Ltd, sent an audit team to review the company’s security policies, processes, and plans. The auditors found that the majority of PBI’s operating units did not have specific plans in place to address data breaches and, in general, the company was deemed “not ready” to effectively prevent and/or respond to a major data breach. The insurance company has indicated that it will not renew PBI’s cyber insurance policy if PBI does not address this deficiency by putting an effective data breach response policy and plan in place. PBI’s executive leadership team has established an internal task force to address these problems and close the gaps because they know that the company cannot afford to have its cyber insurance policy canceled.

Unfortunately, due to the sensitivity of the issues, no management interns will be allowed to shadow the task force members as they work on this high priority initiative. The Chief of Staff (CoS), however, is not one to let a good learning opportunity go to waste … especially for the management interns. Your assignment from the CoS is to review a set of news articles, legal opinions, and court documents for multiple data breaches that affected a competitor, Marriott International (Starwood Hotels division). After you have done so, the CoS has asked that you write a research report that can be shared with middle managers and senior staff to help them understand the problems and issues arising from legal actions taken against Marriott International in response to this data breach in one of its subsidiaries (Starwood Hotels).

Research

1. Read / Review the readings for Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4.

2. Research the types of insurance coverage that apply to data breaches. Pay attention to the security measures required by the insurance companies before they will grant coverage (“underwriting requirements”) and provisions for technical support from the insurer in the event of a breach. Here are three resources to help you get started.

a. https://woodruffsawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/40842_Woodruff-Sawyer-Cyber-Buying-Guide_Final.pdf

b. https:// https://wsandco.com/cyber-liability/cyber-basics/

3. Read / Review at least 3 of the following documents about the Marriott International / Starwood Hotels data breach and liability lawsuits.

a. https:// https:// https:// https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/statement-intention-to-fine-marriott-international-inc-more-than-99-million-under-gdpr-for-data-breach/

e. https://info.starwoodhotels.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInfbpwazJ5AIV0gOGCh0J1wP_EAAYASAAEgIZQPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

f. http://starwoodstag.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/us-en_First-Response.pdf

g. https:// https://news.marriott.com/2019/07/marriott-international-update-on-starwood-reservation-database-security-incident/

i. https:// Find and review at least one additional resource on your own that provides information about data breaches and/or best practices for preventing and responding to such incidents.

5. Using all of your readings, identify at least 5 best practices that you can recommend to Padgett-Beale’s leadership team as it works to improve its data breach response policy and plans.

Write

Write a three to five (3-5) page report using your research. At a minimum, your report must include the following:

1. An introduction or overview of the problem (cyber insurance company’s audit findings regarding the company’s lack of readiness to respond to data breaches). This introduction should be suitable for an executive audience and should explain what cyber insurance is and why the company needs it.

2. An analysis section in which you discuss the following:

a. Specific types of data involved in the Starwood Hotels data breaches and the harm

b. Findings by government agencies / courts regarding actions Starwood Hotels / Marriott International should have taken

c. Findings by government agencies / courts regarding liability and penalties (fines) assessed against Marriott International.

3. A review of best practices which includes 5 or more specific recommendations that should be implemented as part of Padgett-Beale’s updated data breach response policy and plans. Your review should identify and discuss at least one best practice for each of the following areas: people, processes, policies and technologies. (This means that one of the four areas will have two recommendations for a total of 5.)

4. A closing section (summary) in which you summarize the issues and your recommendations for policies, processes, and/or technologies that Padgett-Beale, Inc. should implement.

Submit for Grading

Submit your research paper in MS Word format (.docx or .doc file) using the Research Report #1 Assignment in your assignment folder. (Attach your file to the assignment entry.)

Additional Information

1. To save you time, a set of appropriate resources / reference materials has been included as part of this assignment. You must incorporate at least five of these resources into your final deliverable. You must also include one resource that you found on your own.

2. Your research report should use standard terms and definitions for cybersecurity. See Course Content > Cybersecurity Concepts for recommended resources.

3. Your research report should be professional in appearance with consistent use of fonts, font sizes, margins, etc. You should use headings to organize your paper. The CSIA program recommends that you follow standard APA formatting since this will give you a document that meets the “professional appearance” requirements. APA formatting guidelines and examples are found under Course Resources > APA Resources. An APA template file (MS Word format) has also been provided for your use.

4. You are expected to write grammatically correct English in every assignment that you submit for grading. Do not turn in any work without (a) using spell check, (b) using grammar check, (c) verifying that your punctuation is correct, and (d) reviewing your work for correct word usage and correctly structured sentences and paragraphs.

5. You are expected to credit your sources using in-text citations and reference list entries. Both your citations and your reference list entries must follow a consistent citation style APA,

 

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This assignment builds on material you should be familiar with from your prerequisite English course. Your assignment is to prepare an annotated bibliography using APA style on one of the following topics or another topic of interest to you from a business perspective:

  1. Service quality
  2. Product development
  3. Open-market operations
  4. Information systems
  5. Manufacturing technology
  6. Assessment centers
  7. Transfer pricing

Pick a topic that interests you and develop a good annotated bibliography following the instructions below. You will use the resources you find for this assignment in the Literature Review assignment in Module 2 and the Research Methodology assignment in Module 8. As you look for references in this assignment, keep in mind that the Literature Review and Research Methodology assignments will involve formulating a research question and designing a methodology to answer that question, so be thinking of interesting questions related to the topic you select—questions that you might want to explore further.

The list of sources must contain the following:

  1. The subject of your research, which you must state at the top of the page.
  2. Ten sources of information about your subject, including:
  • At least one book
  • At least four articles from the Hunt Library databases ( http://huntlibrary.erau.edu/ )
  • At least two scholarly articles

Special note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for scholarly work. Do not use Wikipedia as a source for this or any academic assignment. All sources must be correctly documented in APA style, and the entire references list must be correctly formatted in APA style.

The annotation for each source has two parts:

  1. A short summary (2-4 sentences) of the information found in the source
  2. An evaluation of the source’s credibility, reliability, currency, possible bias, and usefulness with respect to your topic. Review the following documents on:

 

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2 article reviews on nutrition 

The media is a major source of nutrition information and misinformation, particularly with the rise of social media. Though social media posts can be persuasive, they are not always based in fact.

For this assignment, select a nutrition “expert” with a substantial social media presence (blogs, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook). You will complete 2 review/evaluations of their posts/content

When selecting a post/content, choose a post that relates directly or indirectly to nutrition. Some examples could be: posts promoting nutrition products, posts discussing the health benefits of specific foods, posts about weight loss products/diets, etc.

Each review should contain:

1.      A link to the original post.

2.      A summary of the content of the post.

3.      A discussion of the author’s credentials. What qualifies this author to make this nutrition claim? [You only need to do this for the first post]

4.      A discussion of the sources of the nutrition information. Did the author include a link to the original source of the information? Is the original source reliable?

5.      Refer to the “10 Red Flags of Junk Science” (pg. 23, also found in Lecture 1 slides). Does this post have any of the red flags? Which ones?

6.      Can you substantiate any of the claims using reliable sources? Do a brief search using reputable websites (pubmed, .gov, .edu) and discuss your findings.

7.      Summarize your conclusions about this post. Is the post promoting legitimate nutrition information based in science? Or is it unsupported by the current evidence?

 

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