Cybersecurity Issues in Businesses: Challenges and Solutions

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Table of contents
Cybersecurity issues in businesses..................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Project objective...........................................................................................................................4
Project scope................................................................................................................................4
Literature review..........................................................................................................................5
The research questions/hypothesis...............................................................................................8
The main question........................................................................................................................8
Secondary questions.....................................................................................................................8
Research Design and Methodology.............................................................................................9
Research limitations...................................................................................................................11
Research plan.............................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................13
References..................................................................................................................................14
Appendices.................................................................................................................................16

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Cybersecurity issues in businesses
Introduction
In the last few years, the use of computers in different fields has been rising with the
ever-rising technologies. The management teams of different fields have realized that computers
are very effective and efficient as compared to human beings which makes their output to be
higher and better than that of human beings (Jacko, 2012). The business field has not been left
behind but has been in the front line to incorporate computers in most of its operations. The
incorporation of computers in business has helped to improve the performance of the businesses
in a great way as computers are well known for their high efficiencies and effectiveness in
performing different operations. Despite the improvement in the performance and many other
benefits of computers in businesses, the computers have made the business to incur great risks
and losses which mainly result from computer failure and cybersecurity attacks which are very
rampant in the contemporary business world (Walters, 2014, pp.1-5). In this paper, we are going
to discuss the cyber attacks and cybersecurity issues in businesses which has been one of the
major issues facing the businesses which have incorporated the use of computers in most of their
operations. Cyber attacks are the attacks which are normally directed to computer information
systems, computer infrastructures, or computer networks. These attacks are usually conducted by
unauthorized personnel who try to access some systems or some information which they are not
allowed to access with the aims of gaining some personal benefits. Cybersecurity issues, on the
other hand, are the issues related to technologies, processes, and the controls which are designed
with the aims of protecting the systems, the networks, and the data from cyber attacks (Privette,
Carlton, and Kelly-Kilgore, 2014). Businesses have been working day in day out to make sure

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they will come up with good cybersecurity systems which will help to protect their systems,
networks, and data from the malicious people who are always working hard to hack the
businesses’ systems and information. However, their efforts to establish strong and reliable
cybersecurity systems to protect their information have been faced with very serious challenges
which we shall discuss in this paper.
Project objective
The main objective of our report is to determine some of the major challenges which face
the businesses when they to implement some of the cybersecurity measures which can help to
reduce the cases of cyber attacks. Discussing and understanding these challenges will help us
come up with some reasonable solutions which can be employed by the businesses to address the
challenges and thus reduce cases of cyber attacks in their organizations.
Project scope
This project will mainly focus on the issues of cyberattacks in businesses and some
cybersecurity measures which can be used by the businesses to address the cases of cyber attacks
in their organizations. The project will also give serious emphasis on some of the main
challenges which face the businesses when they try fight cyber attacks in their organizations
through the implementation of some cybersecurity measures. Therefore, the scope of the project
revolves around the issues of cyberattacks and cybersecurity issues in businesses which use
computer systems in their operations.