Evaluate the recent trend toward attacking small and medium businesses and identify the benefits that these types of businesses have which attract attackers.

 

  • Evaluate the recent trend toward attacking small and medium businesses and identify the benefits that these types of businesses have which attract attackers.
  • Compare and contrast the digital forensic operations of small-sized companies to large companies in terms of costs, personnel, inexperience, naivety, etc.
  • Explain the common purpose of attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems and identify why you as a security professional would have cause for concern for your customers’ POS systems.
  • Assess why and how these POS systems have become a prime target for hacking groups.
  • Examine the forensics challenges that exist for investigations on POS systems.
  • Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment other than the article linked above. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.