From the course: Cloud Security Considerations for the Healthcare Industry
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Case Study: Zynga
From the course: Cloud Security Considerations for the Healthcare Industry
Case Study: Zynga
- [Instructor] The third and final case study is from Zynga, the gaming company. Here, an internal disgruntled employee, who happened to also be a team leader in research and development, downloaded highly confidential business documents in accord with his designated access rights and a need to know principle and removed them from a company laptop and premises before defecting to a competitor. No document level loss prevention controls were applied. No security controls alerted a distributed bulk folder download from the company's cloud storage, and no physical data loss prevention controls were practiced. This resulted in the exposure of business documents and product documentation. The business impacts were definitely financial because the competitor who obtained Zynga's insider knowledge probably reaped considerable business and technological competitive advantages. For Zynga, this likely resulted in diminished longterm income, as well as a decrease in stock value. Zynga was forced…
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