This document provides instructions for a milestone assignment where students will research and summarize a recent security incident involving stolen data. Students must choose an incident like those affecting Target, Capital One, Home Depot or OPM, write a one-page introduction, properly cite any outside sources, and understand their work will be checked for plagiarism with no opportunities for makeup attempts.

1. Milestone 1 - Introduction
Now that we have had an introduction to security protocols that
will help reduce the risk of a security incident we are going to
study security incidents. Each student will select a recent
security incident that had their data stolen by an outside attack,
insider threat, or some other mechanism. There are multiple
examples that can be used, i.e., Target, Capital One, Home
Depot, OPM, etc. As you evaluate the incident you evaluate
several components throughout the remainder of the course.
1. Select a security incident, there are examples above
2. Create a 1-page introduction of the security incident
3. Your response must be properly APA formatted with every
sentence that comes from another source cited or quoted.
4. The submission will go through safe-assign to check
for plagiarism. If a high level of plagiarism is detected this will
result in a zero for the assignment and the school will be
notified.
5. There are no makeup attempts on any assignments