Brief description of assessment task

In this assignment, you will prepare a case investigations report for the board of a Marriott International.

Marriott International, the popular hotel chain, experienced a new data breach in midJanuary 2020, affecting up to 5.2 million guest records globally. This is the second data breach Marriott has experienced in 16 months. There is quite a bit written about the latest Marriott data breach. For more information about the breach, you can find Marriott’s breach disclosure statement using the following link:

https://news.marriott.com/news/2020/03/31/marriott-international-notifiesguests-of-property-system-incident

Your task is to critically and thoroughly analyse and synthesis the Marriott International 2020 data breach and write a case investigation report along with a list of bibliography to support your findings.

Focus on the following:

• The analysis of the data breach.

• Analysis of cybersecurity governance and planning as related to the data breach.

• Analysis of data breach laws.

Being able to defend your answers with convincing justification is an important part of the evaluation.

You can use the following to structure your report:

1. Introduction

2. Analysis of the breach

3. Analysis of cybersecurity governance and planning

4. Analysis of GDPR compliance

5. Conclusion

Please be sure to write in as much detail as is needed to respond in a way that clearly responds to the question at hand, while clarifying and elaborating with examples and details, where possible.

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