DevOps Rescuing White Lodging from Breaches

For the second time in fourteen months, multiple financial institutions lodged complaints of fraud on customer credit and debit cards recently used at White Lodging Services' locations (Krebs, Hotel Franchise Firm White Lodging Investigates Breach, 2014). White Lodging, along with others, was attacked to gain access to the highly profitable credit card data in their financial systems. Companies are faced with the threat of many different malware specialized in Point of Sale systems. This paper will take a case study approach to examine the White Lodging breaches and show how adopting the Development Operations (DevOps) mindset could have worked to mitigate the breaches. This approach can provide an organization a systematic method to quickly implement the Sans Critical Controls.