In: Operations Management
Tell of a cyber-security breach: What company, what happened, and what was the outcome? What are your thoughts about this security breach?
Walmart faced an email security breach when it allowed outside contractors access to their email networking system for monitoring purposes. This compromised confidential data and the company and its employees were investigated by the FBI.
The outcome of the above case was that the companies started taking their email security much more seriously and limited the access to any outsider technician to the private and confidential data to avoid future breaches.
I think when companies operating internationally and having a database of crucial and highly risky data, they should take extra steps to ensure that any person having access to the data is reliable and can be trusted. Without monitoring and validating the technicians, they should not be given access to such high-risk data.