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In this case study, assume that you work for an Information Technology Security firm in Atlanta
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Check My Assignment!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
1 https://www.equifax.com/about-equifax/
2 https://www.ftc.gov/equifax-data-breach
3 http://fortune.com/2018/09/07/equifax-data-breach-one-year-anniversary/
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.
*NOT threat types!
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.
