Cyber Security Challenges in Organizational Context: A Case Study of ABC Technology Company

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Executive Summary:
The main aim of this report is to explain and analyse the current cyber security challenges in
an organizational context specifically the ABC Technology Company. The Concept of cyber
security is very much important for the organizations as this help to protect them from
various kind of online and offline threats.
First in this document a brief discussion regarding the cyber security has been done and the
importance of it to the ABCT has been discussed. Security vulnerabilities present within the
ABC Technology has been also discussed in this context. Cyber security threats are
increasing with the time and in this report five types of cyber security threats has been
discussed and explained.
From the conclusion it has been assessed that implementation of proper cyber security
measures is very much important for the ABC Technology organization. This security
measures is not only important for this organization but also other organization also need
proper cyber security measures for protecting themselves from various of external threats.
Also, recommendation has been provided the protection against the cyber-attack in this
document. In brief how cyber security related attacks can be stopped against home and office
has been discussed.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary:..................................................................................................................ii
1.0 Introduction:.........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Background:.....................................................................................................................1
1.2 Aim:..................................................................................................................................1
1.3 Scope:...............................................................................................................................1
2.0 Cyber Security and its Importance to ABCT:......................................................................1
2.1 Increased Productivity:.....................................................................................................2
2.2 Data Confidentiality:........................................................................................................3
2.3 Customer Protection:........................................................................................................3
3.0 Security Vulnerabilities within the System of ABCT:.........................................................3
3.1 Leakage of Data:..............................................................................................................3
3.2 Denial of Service:.............................................................................................................4
3.3 Data Breach Issue:............................................................................................................4
3.4 Data Loss Issue:...............................................................................................................4
4.0 Five Types of Emerging Threats:.........................................................................................4
4.1 Cryptojacking:..................................................................................................................5
4.2 Cross Site Scripting:.........................................................................................................5
4.3 Geopolitical Risks:...........................................................................................................5
4.4 Mobile Malware:..............................................................................................................5
4.5 IoT Device Threats:..........................................................................................................6
5.0 Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................6
6.0 Recommendations:...............................................................................................................7
7.0 References:...........................................................................................................................8

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1.0 Introduction:
1.1 Background:
In the aspects of computer systems the cyber security refers to protecting the
computer systems from different types of external thefts which can damage electronic data
that is stored within the computer system (Cherdantseva et al., 2016). This type of theft not
only damages manipulate the stored data but also due to this type of attack data can be stolen
from the from the computer system. With that due to this type of attack software and the
hardware of the system can be also damaged. With that a particular type of services can be
also stopped due this type of cyber-attacks. Thus in this case it is very much important to
ensure a proper cyber security for the systems.
1.2 Aim:
This report is aiming to discuss about the cyber security facts and its importance to
the organizations. In this document a particular organization has been selected for analysing
the cyber security and various of factor of it. In this aspect the organization is the ABCT
organization which is an Australian technology company and they are having different of
high-tech products in both of the hardware and software. Recently this organisation has faced
various of cyber-attack and due to that the organizational data has been compromised. For
this reason the ABCT Company has a fear of losing the trust of the customers. For this the
ABCT is improving their security systems and policies regarding it.
1.3 Scope:
In this report some important aspects of cyber security will be elaborated in the
aspects of ABCT Company. Thus in this aspects the concept of cyber security will be
discussed and various of emerging threats will be discusses in this case. Some
recommendation will be provided for protection against the cyber-attacks.
2.0 Cyber Security and its Importance to ABCT:
Cyber Security has become very much important for the organizations considering the
current aspects of security measures. The cyber security actually refers to body of
technologies, practices and processes are designed in the aspects of protecting the devices,
networks, data and programs from various of attacks, unauthorised accesses and damages
(Fielder et al., 2016). In many of the aspects the cyber security is also considered as the
information technology security. This concept is also considered as some set of techniques