Apple Inc.’s Security Risks and Protections Provided to Their Customer’s Privacy

Apple Inc.’s Security Risks and Protections Provided to Their Customer’s Privacy Apple Inc. is one of the leading innovators in today’s technology market. They have 424 stores across the globe, with 255 of those store being in the United States. Apple is expanding globally, as they announced plans to triple the number of stores in China within the next two years (Cheng, 2014). With Apple’s most popular products being the iPhone, iPad, and personal computers, one of Apple’s major concerns is the adequate protection of their customer’s private information. With major security breaches at large companies such as Target and Home Depot that have occurred within the last year, many companies are trying to strengthen their security measures to make sure they are not vulnerable to a security breach. In the last couple of years Apple Inc. has worked hard to provide the best possible protection to their customers, as they are continuously working to keep their security at a high level.
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Apple is not a stranger to security threats and infectious malware. Apple’s first major malware infection occurred just two years ago, in 2012, when over 600,000 Macs were infected with the Flashback botnet trojan malware. Flashback is a type of malware that targets flaws in Java. About half of the computers that were infected were in the United States, while there was also a large number in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia (Mac, 2012). This infection must have been an eye opener for Apple because in May 2014, only two years after this incident, Apple was given a perfect rating in user data protection on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s privacy report. This was an excellent sign for Apple and its fight to protect their user’s data because in 2011, 2012 and 2013 they only earned a