Cybersecurity for ABC Technologies

Running head: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Professional Skills for Information and Communication Technology
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
What is Cybersecurity?..........................................................................................................3
Why is it important for ABC Technologies?.........................................................................5
Identification and explanation of 3 security vulnerabilities in the system for ABC
Technologies with proper justification taken from the research............................................6
Identification and listing of 5 different kinds of threats that might affect ABC Technologies
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Description of each of the threats with their capabilities of causing damages......................9
Responsibility of the attacks and the attacking techniques..................................................10
Recommendations to keep the home and office away from cyber-attacks..........................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The organization of ABC Technologies is and Australian company that has hired a
Security Consultant to help the organization and its employees for having a thorough
understanding about the company and its security system over the cyber world (Van Schaik
et al. 2017). The company is reported to be dealing with variant types of high-tech products,
including the likes of hardware and software products and services to the organization. The
organization has been found to be extremely technologically advanced with the features
offered to the employees and the customers via the utilization of the cyber world. The
organization has previously faced a situation where the company was once victimized by
several cyberattacks by malicious attackers. The company is at a constant concern about the
confidential data about the organization and this is why are looking forward to improve their
security system and security related problems so that they do not lose the trust of the
customers and further losing their reputation in the market.
This is why the following report has been devised or created to make sure that a
document is created about cybersecurity to train the staff in the organization about the basics
of cybersecurity. The following report would hence cover the basic ideas about cybersecurity
for the awareness of the employees, the identification of the security vulnerabilities of the
system in the organization and including the identification of the threats associated with the
organization and their feasibility of being treated with appropriate cybersecurity related
recommendations.

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What is Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity, in a simple form of definition, can be state as the protection that are
required for the systems connected via internet from cyberattacks, with the systems including
software, hardware and most importantly the data and information (Jones et al. 2019).
The concept of computing includes two distinctive security features, one being the
physical security of the computing devices and the other being the security of the devices
connected in the cyber world and communicating through the internet medium (Schatz,
Bashroush and Wall 2017). It has been found that both these forms of security are required in
individual use and in the organizations as well. The ways by which the protection against the
internet medium and the connecting devices is formulated with the protection devised against
the unethical access of data and computer systems. The information security is designed for
the maintenance of the confidentiality, availability and integration of the data, all forming the
subsets if the security of the devices in the cyber world.
However, cybersecurity is nothing that operates in a singlehanded way and the efforts
are not found to be implementing solely throughout (Graham, Olson and Howard 2016).
Cybersecurity ensures protection to the computing devices and the other features of the
utilization of the cyber world throughout the efforts ensured by the coordination of various
efforts at once from the start to the end of an information system. These can include the
following efforts to ensure proper security to the information system in the cyber world:
 Application Security
 Information Security
 Network Security
 Business Continuity Planning