Hi , write a 2 - 3 page paper that addresses the Threats and Vulnerabilities that a car vending machine company may encounter. Note that you may have to look at what car dealerships encounter and app

Overview:

• Write paper in sections

• Understand the company

• Find similar situations

• Research and apply possible solutions

• Research and find other issues

Car Vend Sales inc

• You are an Information Technology (IT) intern

• CarVend Sales Inc.

  • Specializes in online and vending machine sales of new and used cars

  • Headquartered in Seattle, Washington

  • Three other locations

    • Portland Oregon

    • Phoenix, Arizona

    • Los Angeles, California

  • Over 1000 employees

  • $750 million USD annual revenue

Data centers

• Each location is near a data center

• Managed by a third party vendor

• Production centers located at the data centers

Car vend sales inc

• CarVend Sales

  • Handles customer purchases, trades and returns

    • Online sales

    • Small car lots

• CarVend Finance

  • Web Portal to qualify customers for purchases

  • Accepts various payment methods including debit, credit cards and loan financing

• CarVend Delivery

  • Vendors who deliver cars to buyers homes

  • Vendors that deliver to vending machines

Car Vend Sales IT network:

• Four corporate data centers

  • Over 1000 data severs

  • 700 corporate laptops

  • Mobile devices such as tablets in vendor delivery trucks

  • Networked vending machines

Management request

• Current risk assessment was done quickly when the company was founded

• Your assignment is to create a new one

• Additional threats may be found during re-evaluation

• No budget has been set on the project

Threats identified

• Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems

• Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned or vendor assets, such as mobile devices and laptops

• Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on

• Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet

• Insider threats

• Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations