Well before the breach on Target, the company had already been receiving alerts. Evidently, the company’s million-dollar investment of FireEye’s did what it was supposed to do by alerting Target on numerous occasions (Riley, M., Elgin, B., Lawrence, D.). The worst part about this attack was that it was done by “script kiddies”, which is a person who basically uses other people’s scripts and codes to hack into computers. Overall Target had what they needed as far as security tools to keep this from happening, but an employee didn’t do what was necessary. It could very well be that the staff was not properly trained on roles and responsibility; this in turn led to the passivity of the alerts that were sent. It wasn’t until the Department of
