Case study – a data breach incident
Michael Smith, 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 important events. Recently, confidential and strategic information from the company that was only accessible to a very few people, including the CEO, began to circulate publicly.
This leak of information has impacted many 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 was hacked on the last trip.
You were assigned as the lead investigator of the case, so now, you need to carry out first-response procedures and get the necessary information from the CEO's computer to start the investigation.
Analyzing the cybersecurity incident
According to this scenario, several elements...