Issues in Cyber Security

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Issues in Cyber Security
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1ISSUES IN CYBER SECURITY
Abstract
The following report is prepared so as to reflect the issues that are identified within the
company of JL and in terms of addressing those issues, the necessary cyber security measures
are hence recommended. The report reflects the importance of cloud security services for
online business services and as measure to solve the issues in the company of JL, it is
recommended to use the cloud security platform to prevent its data from major data breach.
The last part of the report reflects the important comparison between using traditional way of
securing data and the cloud platform based securing data and hence concludes its importance
in using in the company of JL.

2ISSUES IN CYBER SECURITY
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Overview of the company:.....................................................................................................3
Cyber security issues of the organisation:..............................................................................4
Need to address the cyber security issues:.............................................................................5
Mitigation methods to address the identified cyber security issues within the organisation:....6
Cloud security as a method of solution:.................................................................................6
Comparison between different other approaches to address the security issues within the
organisation:...........................................................................................................................9
Cost breakdown structure to implement the solution for the identified issues:.......................10
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................10
References:...............................................................................................................................11

3ISSUES IN CYBER SECURITY
Introduction:
As the era of digital technology progresses, the popularity of e-commerce platform is
also gaining its pace. As the whole online world is surrounded with different types of threats
and cyber activities, it is becoming extremely important for business organisations to ensure
proper security within their business process so as to secure their different data related to
financial information or trade secrets or data related to patents. Here in plays the role of
Cyber security. The term cyber security is defined as the method to protect the systems that
are used within an organisation in order to store important information, from unwanted or
unauthorized access causing destruction of the entire organisation (Ibrahim, Hamlyn-Harris
& Grundy, 2016). Thus, it is essentially important that companies who are planning to or
already have their business process on online platform, should ensure cyber security and take
necessary measures so as to protect the organisation from scams and data thefts. The
following report is prepared based on the threats that are identified within the organisation of
JL Company and thus based on the identified threats, a detailed risk assessment is made on
the organisation.
Overview of the company:
The company of JL is a small sized company mainly known for its accounts related
work. The is developed in Perth at Western Australia and currently employs about five
people within the organisation. The company is now planning to move its business towards
online platform in the marketing field. As reported, the company is now facing problems
related to slowing down of computers, failure issues in operating systems, random pop ups of
spam messages, emails and also automatic installation of malware in the systems. As all these
issues are gradually taking place in the company of JL hampering their daily business
process, hence this may lead to some major issues in the field of cyber safety for the business.