Assignment: Residency Project
Equifax is one of the three major credit bureau that stores personal and business credit profile information1. Organizations rely on Equifax credit data in order to make pertinent financial lending decisions. In 2017, Equifax revealed that a data breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 143 million Americans2.
In 2018, Equifax budgeted to spend $200 million on security and technology projects for the year3.
In this case study, assume that you work for an Information Technology Security firm in Atlanta and your company has been hired to provide a threat model of Equifax consumer and business data and provide remediation to address the security issue.
Create 20 pages written paper and 25 pages PowerPoint presentation document to address the following area.
Key Deliverables
Your Company Information
- Company profile
- Leadership profile and expertise
Equifax
- Equifax company background and history
- Discuss Equifax 2017 data breach
o Discuss the impact of the security incident
o Discuss the scope of consumers and businesses affected?
o Discuss how Equifax handled the security incident.
o Discuss how the government handled the security incident
Threat Model Proposal
- Propose strategies and discuss a threat model for managing Equifax consumer and business data.
Identify Threats
- Find and discuss at least three threats to Equifax information systems using one of the threat model strategies.
One for data flow, one for data store, one for a process.
Manage and Address Threats
- Discuss and recommend at least two remediations per threat identified in the earlier section.
Closing Section
- Discuss the likelihood of another data breach and recommend what Equifax needs to do to be prepared and possibly avoid it.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.