Cybersecurity in Business

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Executive Summary
In the last few years, there has been rapid development along with innovation in various domain
of life. Development has been encountered in various field like mobility, purchase, and
interaction. For carrying out business, there has been increasing growth and productivity. Apart
from this, it has intended to bring huge amount of exposure to associated risk. Different business
around the globe makes use of internet for both online transmission and transaction on regular
basis. By the amount of provided online data, business can easily expose themselves to
increasing the number of cyber theft. In addition, business can easily encounter online attacks
and data breaches. Any kind of data loss in business can result in disclosing of consumer data
and revealing out customer information. In news media, there has been large number of reports
related to data breach of big corporations.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Previous Approach...............................................................................................................3
New Findings.......................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................8
References............................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
With the passage of time, there has been technological innovation in various aspects of
life. There is an advancement in various aspect like social media, cloud computing and lastly
mobility has changed the way of interacting with people (Weinstein, 2016). For some large
organization, this particular trend will ultimately result in growth and productivity. In the last
few years, Cybercrime is on huge rise that is at an epidemic level, it has ultimately resulted much
greater impact on both small and medium size business. As per the news media, the details of
data breach for big corporation that is SBMs are also at high risk (Bell, 2017). Various
cybercriminals around the globe have assumed the fact that smaller business does not have
required resources. Also, the big organization does not have expertise for defending itself. There
has been continuous development in the domain of cyber attacks like ransomware and others
(Sharma, 2015). It is all about targeting SBMs so that malware is transmitted by emails and
freezing until and unless the ransomware is paid.
In the coming pages of the white paper, an approach has been provided for building a
proper cybersecurity plan for any organization. The provided recommendation is totally based
framework for building critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Apart from this, previous approach
and new findings in the paper has also been discussed in brief.
Previous Approach
Cyberspace can be stated as a virtual place which makes use of both electronics and
electromagnetic spectrum for both storing and modifying information (Jacobs, von Solms &
Grobler, 2016). Cyberspace can be arbitrary space which comprises of objects that neither exits
or represent the present world. It is totally a virtual platform where all the required information