ITEC 616 Week 4 Case Study

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Case 4 Report

Students should respond to the CASE PROMPTS in MEMORANDUM format assuming that the professor is the student’s manager. Use the prompt as a guide on how to focus the response. Student memos to case analysis should be limited to 300–400 words. Answer the issues/question(s) being asked; do not summarize the case. The response is intentionally short, so get to the point. Visit the Student Success site for useful tips on how to analyze and present a case.

CyberSecurity- Distributed Denial of Service Attack at IVK (based on Part 3 The Hero's Ordeal, Adventures of an IT Leader)

Intro: Cyber security is arguably the #1 IT and corporate topic for the early 21st century. A traditional passive approach finds most firms severely underinvested and ill prepared for malicious attacks. Hackers plot their moves, they are deliberate and they are in it for the long haul. Our "adventure" finds our new CIO progressing in his new assignment. Whatever fears might have prevented him from saying "yes" to job seem to be disappearing but …

Assignment: Jim Barton wakes up to a very terrible day! Could his predecessor’s prediction come true? Barton won’t last a year as CIO at IVK? If you were Barton and you got the early morning call, what would be your impressions and experiences in the first few minutes after receiving the call from Ruben? What is YOUR assessment of how IVK handled the crisis? Do they do a good job of crisis management? Your response should consider the roles of various corporate stakeholders.

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