Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Business Continuity

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Abstract
Technology has become more ingrained in today’s company operations, it is fundament
to institute company-wide best practices to carry out cyber security, downloads, risk analysis and
backups so as to safeguard necessary integrated technologies (Rittinghouse et al., 2011). An all-
inclusive management practice that ascertains potential threats to a business continuity and the
impacts to it operations those risks if noted, may cause and offer a system for establishing
organizational flexibility with the ability of an effective response that sucures the intersts of its
key reputation, brand, stakeholders and value-creating activities.
Index terms: compliance, cyber security, business continuity
Introduction
If the business is an extremely regulated sector like the legal professions or economic
sector, it may present some exceptional challenges in your IT requirement. In any organization
data and cyber-security agreement are a priority, but it gets more commanding when your
commercial activities are centered on personal and sensitive information. Failure to comply or
data openings will attract big fines being handed out by the controllers and a bad name on your
organizations (Furfaro et al., 2016). Cyber-attacks affect your ability to do business and also
compromise your client's records. While dealing with cyber-attack effect, it may be necessary to
remove access to IT system, this will obviously affect your clients and staff members. This paper
will explore the issue of Cyber Security, Compliance, and Business Continuity.
Cyber Security, Compliance, and Business Continuity

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Working with clients who have experienced multiple threats globally, many of their
cases involve multiple threats at once.for example, during super storm sandy, many businesses
had to cope through a natural disaster that resulted in massive IT outages and displaced staffs.
Rebooting the network and assisting staffs to get back to work involved many departments-IT,
operations, customer relations, HR, and facilities to all work off the same organized playbook
(Tisdale, 2015).
When working with controlled businesses clients are encouraged to take the following
five steps to safeguard their information is safe and IT systems are working:
 Policies of Cyber security: cyber security policies that are severe will aid in
isolating those sections that might be at risk and put anticipatory processes in
place. Clients and employees should be controlled on how they use the system
and networks. An example, one might have staff remotely logging in from
different gadgets, or utilizing the Internet for both recreation and business (Chinn
et al., 2014).
 Training, Communication, and Awareness: Human error, malicious attack or
system glitch may cause data breaks, this can be prohibited by creating awareness
of cybersecurity consciousness problems and putting appropriate training in place
for all staff member (Chinn et al., 2014).
 Monitoring and Web Filtering: Protective measures like web filtering can
prevent malware before it has even moved in the system, also detecting machines
infested with malicious spyware, phishing attacks or nuisance adware, and