Question

“In May 2019 Australian graphic design tool website Canva suffered an attack that exposed
email addresses, usernames, names, cities of residence, and salted and hashed with bcrypt 
passwords (for users not using social logins — around 61 million) of 137 million users. 
Canva says the hackers managed to view, but not steal, files with partial credit card and 
payment data. (Sourced from IT Security agency)

Referring to the case given, list and explain 2 steps that can help prevent data breach like this.

“…Many different departments within an organization now require access to the same data.
With conventional file processing, data are often duplicated in multiple files. Often
data are stored in different formats in each of the files in which they are stored. On
occasion, data which are stored in multiple files do not agree and time has to be
expended to resolve these differences. (Sourced from an Academic journal)

List and illustrate 2 benefits of a suitable database system to support a business like this.

With the arrival of the Internet, other mobile companies started
understanding how data, not voice, was the future of communication. Nokia
didn’t grasp the concept of software and kept focusing on hardware because the
management feared to alienate current users if they changed too much.”

List and briefly explain 2 factors that might have been overlooked by the business(es), referred to in the case.  

Referring to the case given, list and explain 2 steps that can help prevent data breach like this.

Answer 1

Steps taken prevent the data breach like this can we proper encryption of the data by using latest version of encryption techniques and using multi factor authentication to access the data and adding IDS and IPS system to check for the attack and report the managers.

Benefits of using a database with role based access to the file are that there are no duplicate redundancy of the files in the database and second benefit is that anyone can access the file from anywhere in the company using their credentials for the role.

The factor that have been overlooked by the business are to keep up with the change in technology and serve the customers the latest technology in Trend. Nokia sale to overlook that new technology will be the future and they did not accept the change as it would have harm their existing user base and second factor is that they thought that their existing user would be sticking to the older technology as it would be cheap and easily access and fail to recognise that the new emerging technology can be available at the low price and to all the consumers easily.