Cyber Security Threats And Challenges For Organizations

Research Program to Analyze the Challenges

Question:

Discuss about the Cyber Threats in social Networking Websites.

This report is based on the cyber security threat that poses many challenges for an organisation nowadays (Gharibi and Shaab 2012). This chapter will also analyse the different kind of cyber security threats that challenges protection of confidential data for companies that are dependent on the information system. To analyse a research program has been designed in purpose of getting an insight in the issues and challenges. The scope and objective of the project is also given in purpose of further designing the research. The primary and secondary questions are formed (Silverman 2016). The research design and methodology is discussed and within the context, they are formed. To maintain the reliability and validity of the research the measure are also discussed. The approach to the research and data collection process is also mentioned and discussed thoroughly (Kumar and Phrommathed 2015). The ethical that must be kept in mind while doing the research is also discussed in the process. While outlining the research the main criteria is to decide and check the limitations of the research. Therefore, the limitations is also identified and given. To maintain the given time for the schedule of doing every steps of the research is also charted in the end.

• To propose a research for the threat of cyber security and maintain the privacy of the organisational data
• To identify and analyse the different threats that are becoming a headache of incorporating the social platform and information technology adopted by small, medium as well as the big firms in the global market.

The scope of this project lies in the thorough research and identifying different kind of cyber challenges and threats that a company can face in the present modern world. The advantage of doing this project will be based on the primary data collected and getting different perspective of the challenges faced in different context of using cyber platform for different platform in social internet world.

Cyber security is important for business that is using the information system integrated technology in their companies. The challenges that the companies are facing recently are related to the data protection of their organisation. The abundant use of technologies and increase in the number of crime in data protection these days are quite a challenging issue (Chertoff 2008). The cyber-attacks have become frequent and this critical matter threatens most of the government ministry. The network security is most essential part of resolving the harm that may come from ignorance of the matter. The effectiveness of the organisation’s management also must be considered in use of technology. In the opinion of Babate et al. (2015) the emerging challenges are in seen in the new devices like Smartphone and other digital devices which enhances the threat of the data.

Different Kinds of Cyber Security Threats

Phishing is identified as the most dangerous tech that uses the clients or individual’s credentials that both personal and important in this era. The deceptions are rather threatening , which leads to a crime that is punishable for 12 years of jail (Clemente 2013 ). Botnet is controlled and operated within the cyber criminal community, which uses viruses to permanently damage the pc or other systems (Donaldson et al. 2015). Malwares and key loggers are programmes that are also harmful and used by hackers to collect private and confidential information. Social engineering is a technique to trap the clients or any individual victims that has valuable information for crime purposes. The Viruses are very well known hacking and virtually affecting software or programmes that are harmful for the whole system. This can also spread through external devices like pen drives (Hall 2016). The impact of virus is very essential to be eliminated or the whole system comes crumbling down. The vendors in this security industry are very useful and proactive and constantly update the code and security systems in place (Babate et al. 2015). Thus these risks are primarily threatens the organisations. The networking between the organisation and intra organisation have become challenging to use. The lack of leadership and in handling this matter and low ethical consideration of the person is the main issue in the business. The collaboration in the different departments is also among the major problem in withstanding cyber crime (Gharibi and Shaabi 2012). Lack of educational awareness among the employees is also a reason of risk instigated in the cyber security measures. The laws and regulation of the organisation as well as of the nation regarding cyber crimes needs to be firm and implemented thoroughly. This is also a contributing factor of having the cyber security. The regulatory limitations must be facilitated for better result (Gharibi & Shaab 2012). The ease in access of the software tools and programmes must be restricted to trustworthy people. Lack of control in the mechanisms is also factor that pushes the criminals to steal data and breach the protection level of organisations.

Minimising the impact of this negative aspect of internet and modern world software technologies the organisations must gather the systems and protection measure that are essential for privacy of the client’s information protection (Babate et al. 2015). Would this not only influence the annual revenue but also trust factor that a suppliers or a client presents to its customers. Most of the hackers take only minutes to breach the data but the companies will take much more time to recover the damage of the incident. The future of the business are becoming more dependent upon the internet accessibility and cyber space these days. Therefore, the threat also increases parallel. Updating the systems also in addition upgradation of the systems must be done on a periodical basis. In addition, that must be frequent. The changes in the systems will ensure more variety and thus confusing the hackers in their intensions (Foreshew 2017). The threats in the field includes the continuous efforts from the hackers side, international connections and time lag in the data breach and detection.

Importance of Cyber Security

The research design and methodology here includes both qualitative and quantitative research approach. The outline of the research including both qualitative and quantitative way of doing research.

Qualitative research includes the analyzing the categorical variable and mainly focuses on the attitudinal survey and research approach of data. However, quantitative way of doing research is to analyse the numeric and alphanumeric variables. These two methods help in generalising the research (Silverman 2016).

The approach to any research must be reliable and valid. The main concern lies in maintaining the reliability and validity of the research data. To ensure the main outcomes is useful and that it can be utilised further in future research these two factors must be considered. These two factors also take into consideration the ethics of the research. The most important emphasis is too given in quality in a qualitative research. The factors that ensure the reliability and validity of the research are applicability, consistency, conformability, credibility and transferability of the research (Silverman 2016). These factors must be concluded as this are the essential factors that maintains the reliability of the method chosen. This also ensures the trustworthiness of doing research. On the other, hand the validity consists of two factors. The concept validity is given to account the imperceptivity of the conceptions that are used in methodology. The construct validity is used to ensure the steps of the internal process are used to maintain the internal subjective validity (Gast and Ledford 2014). This factor also takes into consideration, the subject variability, maturation, instrument and task sensitivity and population and history of the research.

Deciding the approach to research is after designing the research. The inductive and deductive way of doing research is most common method. The inductive way of doing research is to us e the data collection method, observing and analysing the variable and based on the gaps identified the hypothesis are formed and testes. The theory selection must be done beforehand. Here for this particular research proposal the inductive way of doing research is selected. The data collection must be done in the basic inductive way (Kumar and Phrommathed 2015).

The exploratory design method is selected for this particular research. The primary and secondary data will be collected and the analysing process will include the descriptive analysis of data. Based on the objectives the research questions and questionnaires will be formed and given. The focus will be onto collecting the primary data from the respondents and based on observation the descriptive study will be formed (Tarone et al. 2013).

Challenges Faced in Cyber Security Measures

The secondary data will be collected for different online journal. The literature review will be given on the arguments that are contextual and related to the subject and objective of the research (Tuohy et al.2013). Analysing the risk of cyber security and its potential threat related to data protection of a company in their management system must be based on the gap analysis of the research done previously in the field (Gast and Ledford 2014). The primary data will be collected from one identified company that have used data protection and what have compelled them to use that. A group of 60 professionals in the Information technology department will be identified and questioned.

The sample data will includes the variables like the different cyber security threats , what are the risk related to the cyber security and what are the positive and negative outcomes of the process (Panneerselvam 2014). For observing this variables the group of 60 employees will be questioned based on the questionnaire prepared.

The variables either will be dependent or will be independent in nature based on the research objectives. The topic of the research is based the cyber security and identified the precautions and mitigating the risk arising from not having cyber security method incorporated in the company Information security system (Mackey and Gass, 2015). The set of hypothesis will depend upon the gaps analysed in the literature review section. Based on hypothesis the result will be calculated and the arguments that are developed in the objective and research scope. Surveying the respondents and with the structured interview questionnaires and based on the convenient sampling method the data gathered will be analysed (Panneerselvam 2014). The sample must be chosen also taking into consideration the probability of the sample size.

There are some constraints in conducting a successful research. That is getting the authentic journals and research material from reliable sources, getting peer reviewed data (Mackey and Gass, 2015). In addition, the time constraints must be taken into consideration. The ethics of doing research must be kept in mind. No personal data must be given in the research and the deviation of the result must not be generalised or manipulated at any cost. The real data and analysis result must be presented in the findings section (Tarone et al. 2013).

Conclusions

Therefore, from the above discussions it can be concluded that cyber security has become a concern for every company using the internet and web integrated technology in their information flow system in their organisation. Thus, it can be a challenging issue for some companies that are planning the incorporation without measuring the risk that can arise. The potential risks are therefore, discussed briefly in the summary section of the literature review from previous assignment. The managerial shortcomings that also contribute to this threat are also discussed in the report. The complete research proposal in opined and steps are explained thoroughly in the text.

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