Tjx Technology

Introduction:

The TJX Companies, Incorporated is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is originally evolved from the Zayre discount department store chain. In 1988, Zayre sold the depatrtment store and renamed the company as The TJX Companies, Incorporated. The first branch of T.J Maxx was opened in 1976. And it moved up to 141st in the Fortune 500 rankings in 2004. In 2009, it became the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price company in the United States.

The TJX Companies, Incorporated has stores and brands over US, UK and Canada. It also stocked a wide range of goods, such as jewelry, furniture, clothes and footwear, etc. The target customer groups of the company are the middle and upper middle women.

In 2006, TJX suffered from security problem, up to 45 million credit and debit card numbers was stolen, due to the security weakness of the company.

Problem facing:

The TJX Companies, Incorporated has faced the worst security problem in the past years. The thieves focused on major retail chain and stole the customers’ credit card information. The thief can easily steal the information mainly because TJX’s security level was low. And having an unqualified security control, which means the methods and policies used to prevent unauthorized access and to ensure the safety of organization’s asset.

The first security control used in TJX is the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WEP is a security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. Its intention is to provide data confidentiality comparable to tat f a traditional wired network. WEP is widely in use. There are two methods of authentication for WEP, Open authentication and Shared Key authentication. WEP shares one single WEP key between every node on the network. That means the WEP key for the access points is the same with the client stations.

The second security control is the installment of firewall. Firewall is a device designed to permit or deny network transmissions based...