Cybersecurity Strategy Analysis

This assignment requires a comprehensive analysis of different cybersecurity strategies outlined in provided documents. Students are expected to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these strategies, considering factors such as risk management, organizational structure, and technological solutions. The analysis should also reflect on the dynamic nature of cyber threats and emerging trends in the cybersecurity landscape.

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Task A.........................................................................................................................................................3
Role of ICT in Cyber Security.....................................................................................................................3
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
Strength...................................................................................................................................................6
Weakness.................................................................................................................................................6
Opportunities...........................................................................................................................................7
Threats.....................................................................................................................................................8
Recommendations for Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization providers.................................................9
Goals and Objectives.................................................................................................................................10
Task B (Silobreaker Cybersecurity)...........................................................................................................11
Literature Review......................................................................................................................................11
Research Questions...................................................................................................................................16
Research Design and Methodology...........................................................................................................17
Quantitative Approach:..........................................................................................................................17
Qualitative Approach:............................................................................................................................17
Research Limitations.................................................................................................................................19
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................19
References.................................................................................................................................................20
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Introduction
The primary purpose of writing this report is to obtain the knowledge and understanding about
the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its role in the Siobreaker Silobreaker
Cyber Security Organization organization. This report is categorized into two tasks, namely Task
A and Task B. Task A is to identify the role of ICT using detailed SWOT Analysis (including
strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) of a current ICT services in the Silobreaker Cyber
Security Organization. Task A report also aims to review the goals and objectives of ICT in
cyber security in short, mid term and long term plan and providing the recommendations for
Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization providers. Task B includes the research report on the
role of ICT in Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization. The research report comprises of the
detailed evaluation and impact of new and current ICT services in the Silobreaker Cyber
Security Organization using literature review, research questions, research design and
methodologies, and research limitations. In the end, there is a conclusion of the complete
combined report of both Task A and Task B.
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Task A
Role of ICT in Cyber Security
The usage of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is expanding day by day and so
its impact on various organizations. With the adoption of new ICT services, Cybercrimes such as
spam, hacking, phishing, frauds are increasing at a fast pace. This is because, nowadays, the
mobile and internet services are an essential part of every individual’s routine live all around the
world. The outcome of this would be that more the usage of ICT services more will be the threats
to security of confidential content. So, there is a need of putting an emphasis on increasing the
cyber-security in the overseas market and ICT plays crucial role in enhancing the cyber-security
by removing the malicious attacks on the confidential and non-confidential data shared on the
computer networks. ICT prevents the multiplication of spam and viruses by denial of service
attacks. Therefore, ICT helps the cyber security to maintain and ensure the safety of the
information carried over on different communication networks (Beirut, 2009).
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SWOT Analysis
The below table comprises of the summary of SWOT Analysis (Strength, weakness,
opportunities and threats) of the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization.
Organization: Silobreaker Cybersecurity service Date :
Description of current/new ICT service : Currently, ICT plays a vital role in different sectors
including health, agriculture, education, commerce, cyber security, etc. but there is a need to
address the long term goals to prevent espionage, cyber attacks, frauds, etc. It has been observed
that the Research and development of cyber security service in Silobreaker organization may
affect the long term challenges of ICT based on DICE (Design, Incentive, Concensus, and
Environment) structure, but this DICE structure may help in cloud computing federal initiatives
and other elements of cyber security services.
Strength:
 Covering the large domestic area with
Financial strength
 World class Research and development
department of UK university.
 Advantage of UK aerospace industry.
 Better cooperation between public and
private relations
Weakness:
 Loose bonds between business and
educational organizations.
 Poor understanding of the trading
features (Pierre Audoin Consultants,
2013).
 Limited buyer knowledge.
 Lack of officially recognizing or
accreditations for vendors to small and
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 World class organizations and
knowledge.
medium scale enterprises or SME’s.
 Feeling of small and medium scale
enterprises to be excluded from
government organizations.
Opportunities
 Advanced or modern IT market in the
UK.
 Potential increase in the investment
from commercial and government
sectors.
 An enhancement in the sector due to
increase in the Foreign direct
investment
 Potential of Small and Medial scale
enterprises.
 Utilizing opportunities to legal
responsibilities.
Threats
 Depending upon the overseas cyber
security firms
 Better funding of overseas investors.
 Brain drain
 Competition with international markets.
 Displacement by cloud computing
services.
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Strength
1. Covering the large domestic area with Financial strength: - UK comes in the third
largest position in the financial strength which is a big payout on developing cyber
security solutions. Using this strength UK can develop alliances with the other countries
and can make use of those financial accounts at the highest possible level.
2. World class Research and development department of UK university: - The courses
provided by the UK universities to the student related to the cyber security will help them
bring more connects with the suppliers by making students work in the professional
environments.
3. Advantage of the UK aerospace industry: - UK can take advantage of the UK
aerospace industry by providing them cyber security services as the UK comes in the top
5 list of defence exporters.
4. Better cooperation between public and private relations: - The sharing partnership of
various cyber security services providing organizations such as CPNI, CGP and CSISP
are biggest assets in the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization.
5. World class organizations and knowledge: - UK is considered as a pool of the talent
due to its large SME’s contractors working worldwide on various cyber security projects
like CNI, KPMG, etc.
Weakness
1. Loose bonds between business and educational organizations: - Some of the Small
and medium Enterprises feels that the students in the universities are fresh and doesn’t
consider them as professionals. Thus, the cyber security sector needs to promote the
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values of cyber security in the educational institutions or universities (Pierre Audoin
Consultants, 2013).
2. Poor understanding of the trading features: - Lack in the understanding of the trading
feature due to the unformulated administrative management is one of the weaknesses
found in the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization.
3. Limited buyer knowledge: - Due to the lack of the understanding in dealing with the
marketing, funding companies, management, many SME’s find the alternative sources
for getting some funds to promote themselves.
4. Lack of officially recognizing or accreditations for vendors to small and medium
scale enterprises or SME’s: - Deployment or implementation of security features by the
unqualified experts in the SME’s leads to lose confidence in the buyers.
5. Feeling of small and medium scale enterprises to be excluded from government
organizations: - SME’s feel excluded from the government organization to the increase
in the cost of sale irrespective of contract values and other factors.
Opportunities
1. Advanced or modern IT market in the UK: - UK market is open to other organizations
providing cyber security services and provide openness to the overseas market and comes
at the fifth position as a largest IT market. It provides services like SAAS, e-commerce
and social networking which can make their UK market more strong and competitive
with other cyber security providers.
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2. Potential increase in the investment from commercial and government sectors: - It
has been observed that due to the exploitation of the cyber crime, there are chances that
the commercial and government sectors can increase their investment in the near future.
3. An enhancement in the sector due to increase in the Foreign direct investment: -
Due to the strong business bonds between the UK and the US defence vendors, UK can
take an advantage to improve the foreign direct investment (Republic of Uganda, 2011).
4. Potential of Small and Medial scale enterprises: - This is to increase the knowledge of
the SME’s about the cyber crimes which may lead to increase the investment of the UK
market.
5. Utilizing opportunities for legal responsibility insurance: - This can be done by
providing the insurance to the SME’s and building a business alliance with them.
Threats
1. Depending upon the overseas cyber security firms: - The competitive cyber security
firms are from the overseas organizations from US or other countries. The big names in
the cyber security firms in the US include Apple, Microsoft, IMB, HP, etc.
2. Better funding of overseas investors: - Funding of the other countries to the startups
and other ventures is a threat to the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization. Overseas
funding to the UK companies is more and thus can acquire the UK markets by their
strong marketing skills.
3. Brain drain: - Overseas students getting education from the UK university are a threat to
the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization as they more likely to leave the country after
learning and may utilize the skills learned from the UK and increasing their potential in
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their own countries. This will increase the competition of Silobreaker Cyber Security
Organization with other countries.
4. Competition with international markets: - Promotion of the cyber security services
from the other countries to the UK market may lead to overtake the cyber security
organizations. Thus, cyber security must be maintained to remain competitive with other
countries.
5. Displacement by cloud computing services: - Nowadays, Small and medium
enterprises feel that the cloud computing services are more secure than using the separate
softwares or organization services which may lead to reduce the services provided by the
Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization.
Recommendations for Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization providers
After analyzing the factors of SWOT, below are some recommendations for Silobreaker Cyber
Security Organization providers in the form of points: -
 Recognizing different competitors and skills from different markets.
 Remaining up to date with the impact of cloud computing.
 Developing a strong business alliance with other competitors for the mutual benefits.
 Exploring the areas where the need of cyber security is more and competition is less.
 Understanding the competitors (PR Newswire Europe Limited, 2017).
 Merge with small and large scale organizations, etc.
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Goals and Objectives
This part is to understand the goals and objectives of using ICT in Cyber Security on the basis of
SWOT analysis and to create a long, mid and short term plan. This part is also written to analyze
the strategies we can implement to develop new opportunities by using the current or already
existing strengths of ICT.From the SWOT analysis, we evaluated thatICT provides various
services to the Cyber security and helping them to grow in the UK market (Salami & Adisa,
2013). Thus, we are combining all the factors which can be used as a short, mid or long term
plan. Here are some factors which are mentioned below, but is not limited to:
 Managing and promoting the cyber security awareness.
 Allow the cyber security organizations in the US market to compete with the overseas
market.
 Providing engagement of more vendors or suppliers in domestic area.
 Helping US market to make business alliance with the market overseas.
 Providing professional talents to work with SME’s providing services in cyber
security (Hajj, 2014).
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Task B (Silobreaker Cybersecurity)
Literature Review
The literature review is written to understand the need of cyber security and why the cyber
attacks happen on the confidential or non-confidential information. We have analyzed and
evaluated in the SWOT analysis that more is the usage of internet networks, more there will be
chances of the threats or cyber crime on the information. According to a report, approx 80% of
the household users have network connectivity over internet. That is, the majority of the people
are using internet for different purposes. In a report, it has been analyzed that between the year
2010 and 2012, the internet users have been doubled to its percentage from approx 25% to 50%..
So, it is very essential to understand the cyber security and how to protect the data from
malware. Also, it’s very necessary to aware the organizations regarding the cyber attacks and
what actions the organizations must take during the cyber attacks. The literature review on the
role of ICT in Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization is conducted to understand the cyber
security and its concepts. ICT helps the cyber security companies in a number of ways, and to
protect the organizations from the denial of access, so that organizations can operate in a secure
and efficient manner (Lasa, 2012).
In co-existence with that, among the top four risks, cyber attacks have been identified as one of
them. Cyber attacks are done intentionally to gather or modify the information without having
actual access to the database or software.Cyber attacks are potentially increasing day by day due
to the exponential sharing of the information over the networks. So, there is a need to understand
how to safeguard the information from any kind of misuse or illegal action.
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It has been observed that ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is nowadays
necessary to make all the organizations work remotely. All the organizations work on their
computers to share data to far more places in a milliseconds count. Without the ICT services it is
nearly impossible to share the information online. In a survey conducted in 2008 in London, it
has been evaluated that approx 91 percent of people or organizations responded that the internet
is fairly important or vital for them (Security, 2007).
In an another study, it has been observed that approx 95 percent of the cyber attacks are for the
monetary terms or for the financial factor. On an average it has been estimated that annually
there is an approx $400 billion loss incurred due to the cyber attacks in the organization.
Although, the sum mentioned is not a final amount and vary year-to-year. To prevent the
organizations from such cyber attacks, a proper prevention and risk management measures are to
be taken.Below are some basic risk management measures which can prevent approx 85 percent
of the cyber attacks and helps in managing the rest 15 percent. To improve the security, some of
the following steps are mentioned below in the form of points which can be taken care of:
 Management of Information
 Applying security principles to mobile and internet services.
 Providing awareness to the students.
 Recovery management
 Managing access privileges.
 Controlling access to the removable devices.
 Secure connection.
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The other major factor which is believed to add up to the risk of confidential information is the
use of social media websites. On an average it has been calculated as approx 60% of the business
pose to the cyber attack due to the social media platforms accessed in the office work stations. In
an another count, 50% of the business add up the as the policy of immediate action towards the
person who are alleged to leak the data over other places (NCSC, 2013).
There are four major key trends which help in improving the security and overall performance of
the organization. The four key trends are Cloud, Mobility, social and big data analytics. The
essential feature of the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization sector is that it highly restrict
the vibrations of small and large group of suppliers, to share the revenue generated from the
cyber security. In an existing survey of 600 companies, it has been analyzed that only 1% of the
Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization is denominating while approx 40 percent measured is
responsible for generating the revenue (NIST, 2016).
In the latest 2017 survey, which was conducted by Ipsos MORI which includes the approx 1,525
UK businesses, using a telephone and was held between Oct 2016 to Jan 2017. The survey
highlights all the business organizations posed to security threats and need a security measures to
safeguard their businesses It has been observed that approximately 85 percent of the threats were
due to websites, Approx 60 percent because of using social media platforms and others due to
the usage of cloud services. It has also been observed that almost 75% of the business
organizations believe that cyber security is much more important for their business to safeguard
confidential and non-confidential data passing over to the internet.
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Over the past few years, approx 60% of business organizations have taken the cyber security
measures and more awareness related to the cyber attacks. They have taken help either from the
IT consultants or have searched for the awareness on the internet or magazines. The business
organizations which got help from the government sources approved that they found those
sources useful which helped them to understand more about the cyber security and cyber attacks
(Klahr, Shah, Sheriffs, Rossington, & Pestell, 2017).
Now, the government has imposed the latest strategy that will be as per the below points:
 The Government will provide the consultation to the UK business organizations so that
they can take preventive measures.
 Every individual will have a minimum knowledge to safeguard his or her data.
 UK business will operate securely using the ICT services.
 They will defeat the cyber attacks using cyber security.
 UK will build business alliance with other countries
Also, there are some challenges that the government may face while implementing the strategies
to impose the cuber security measures. The challenges are mentioned below:
 Determining each and every business organization to protect and promote them.
 Addressing all the security gap and skills of the current UK and future ICT.
 Providing awareness to each and every individual.
 Enforcing the law and making the strict policies regarding the cyber attacks.
 Following the agile methodology to make sure the securing measures are in place.
 Indicating the value in monetary terms.
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To address the UK skills gap and determine the current and future ICT, it has been recorded that
the number of professionals related to ICT and cyber security has not been increased in line with
the rapid growth of internet. This has hindered the shortage of ICT and cyber security skills in
the UK to prevent the country from the cybercrime and implement the security. There is a lack of
technological skills related to cyber security in the UK market and there re much more chance of
risks. Almost every organization needs the security of the ICT and government to keep their
confidential information safe and protected from the cyber attacks (Morse, 2013).
As per survey in the year 2011, 19 million people in UK or approx 70 percent of the population,
which has increased to 3 percent in 2011. This has been due to the increase and move of
population to the internet. This had also made some behavioral change to the individuals or the
organizations.To make the people aware about the cyber security and how to save them from the
cyber crime, the government has also invested approx £6 million to the educational academics ad
run safeguard campaign ‘Get Safe Online’. The government had implemented this initial
measure in the year 2015 to provide consultation to the SME’s or small and medium scale
enterprises, so that they can prevent themselves from fraud and misuse of their information
(Yassir & Nayak, 2012).
It has been evaluated that the UK has implemented various measures to provide the cyber
security what challenges government faces in implementing the strategies to safeguard the data.
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Research Questions
The research questions are divided into two parts. One is the primary question and others are the
secondary questions derived from the primary question. The primary research question which
this report aims to answer is:
 What is the role of ICT in Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization?
The secondary questions which this report aims to answer, but not limited to:
 What is the size and scope of Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization organizations?
 What would be the best locations of cyber security organizations of UK?
 What are the opportunities for the organizations to increase their revenue?
 What is the market size and growth in the Silobreaker Cyber Security Organization?
 How can the organizations increase the cyber security in order to provide better
protection for their data and resources?
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Research Design and Methodology
This report includes the research design and methodology based on quantitative as well as
qualitative approach.
Quantitative Approach:
Quantitative approach gives more accurate and transparent image of risk. Also, this approach
allows us to know the priority of the risk at a lower cost. Quantitative approach can be
categorized into five parts to evaluate the risk of cyber security which is as follows:
1. Determining the plan to action
2. Designing the work flow diagrams to create the mapping of the business.
3. Creating the cyber attack evaluation tables to investigate the risk.
4. Defining the cost effective list to evaluate the policy options.
5. Assigning assess orders to deploy programs (Borg, 2014).
Although, the result of risk measured using this approach is not precise and accurate.
Qualitative Approach:
Qualitative research can be considered as intuitive as compared to the quantitative approach of
research to collect the information. Qualitative approach is much instinctive and focus more on
groups or consultations. In this approach, people are asked to answer the questions and based on
their answers the report is to be created. This approach is quite expensive than quantitative
approach and can be commuted only using specialized softwares or tools (Rot, 2008).
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The following figure shows the ways to collect the information using the qualitative and
quantitative approach.
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Research Limitations
Although we have analyzed the SWOT analysis and have completed the research on the topic of
the role of ICT in cyber security, but there stills remain the detailed research on the qualitative
and quantitative research design and methodologies due to time constraint.Also, the exponential
increase the technologies sum up latest updates every minute, which contrast with the existing
findings. So, this would be more challenging to generate the exact values or report every time.
This report includes the analysis of the data and its validity from various sources and hence, this
report is verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic or examination.
Conclusion
This report was written primarily to analyze the role of ICT in cyber security and to understand
the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of cyber security. This report was categorized
into two tasks to understand differently the two concepts. The first task was to understand the
SWOT analysis, goals and objectives and the recommendations to the Silobreaker Cyber
Security Organization organizations. The second task was to summarize the research based on
the ICT in cyber industry. It comprises of the detailed understanding of ICT and cyber security,
its literature review and the research and design methodologies conducted for the outcome of the
research. This report also includes the limitations of the research. The purpose of this complete
report is to carry out the research on the selected topic and to make the reader understand about
the approach selected to carry out the research on ICT and its role in Silobreaker Cyber Security
Organization.
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