Week 6 Assignment
Submit your answers to the following problems through Canvas as a PDF document by the due
date on Monday Week 7 at 11:59 p.m. Also submit any supporting documents such as Excel
spreadsheets.
1. Research and find a publicized attack on an organization or company’s IT systems and
provide the information requested below. Cite the references you use for your answer.
a. Briefly describe the incident, including what company or organization was involved,
when the incident took place, and how the incident was categorized (in terms of the
type of attack).
b. If there was data stolen or lost during the incident, when the incident occurred; the
data effected, what sort of data; how sensitive was it; and how much data was
stolen. If no data was stolen, what was the impact of the attack (service denied
during the attack, etc.)?
c. Was the incident characterized as a technical attack on systems, an incident
involving individual mismanagement, or a combination?
2. Research the European right to be forgotten and provide the information requested
below. Cite the references you use for the answer.
a. What the right to be forgotten provided for?
b. What impact does this right have on organizations and businesses that are
information based (not only online news and blogs, but also search engines, social
media, etc.)?
c. Can anything ever be completely forgotten on the Internet? Explain.
3. Research the term digital rights management (DRM) and provide the information
requested below. Cite the references that you use for your answers.
a. What does the term encompass?
b. How are DRM technologies used?
c. What are the controversies surrounding DRM?
4. Identify three certificate authorities and provide the information requested below. Cite the
references that you use for your answers.
a. What are the names of the certificate authorities?
b. What services do they provide? Are there any major differences?
5. In a browser, go to a website that uses HTTPS (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.) and
view the certificate (each browser has a different method of doing this; find the method
for your browser) and provide the information requested.
a. What was the website you chose?
b. What type of information is provided by the certificate, and what were the specific
entries for your website?
c. What is the fingerprint information?
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