Responding to a data breach incident
Michael Scott, the chief executive officer (CEO) of a global energy company, traveled to Asia a couple of months ago to attend one of the industry's most notable events.
Recently, confidential and strategic information from the company that was in the hands of very few people—including the CEO—began to circulate publicly.
This leak of information has impacted different areas of the business and has affected some negotiations that were taking place with different companies around the world.
Some of the published information was on the CEO's computer, and now, there are suspicions that his computer could have been hacked on the last trip.
You were assigned as the lead investigator of the case, so now, you need to do first response procedures and get the necessary information from the CEO's computer to start the investigation.
Analyzing the cybersecurity incident
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