Question

“Marriott International announced in November 2018 that attackers had stolen data

on approximately 500 million customers. The breach initially occurred on systems

supporting Starwood hotel brands starting in 2014. The attackers remained in the

system after Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 and were not discovered

until September 2018.”(sourced from a published report)

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

Answer 1

In the given case attackers remained in the system after Marriot acquired Starwood in 2016 but they were discovered only after November 2018.

Some of the steps to protect databse is:

1.Sheild your website against SQL injection.SQL injection is very easy for the attackers to rogue your data.To stop this from happening ,you need to use a parameterized query.

2.In order to identify the threats on the data,perform frequently Threat modeling and security analysis.This is very much useful in identifying the threats taking place on data.