Security and Privacy Challenges in IoT

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Executive Summary
There is a rising threat faced by the business organisations because of network-attack, cyber-
attacks and privacy breaches. These are the most common and continuously rising thefts in the
digital business world. As the organisations are increasing the use of internet in almost all the
business functions the risks and threat of getting attacked is also snowballing. The small scale
organisation does not have much budget to ensure that their business processes are free from
such risks. Thus there is a need to have adequate steps in limited budget to overcome the threat
of these network security and privacy breach risks. Though, the following report will highlight
the network security issue and the ways it can be overcome or saved from. There will also be
provided several recommendations which can help the organisation to have safer and secure
functioning so that there can be successful business expansion without much risk of network-
attacks and malware ad ransom ware attacks.

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Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Network Security and its need for global businesses......................................................................3
Overview of Network and Cyber security and Privacy breach...................................................4
Developments, practices and applications in the field of network and information security......5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to develop a report highlighting various information and network
security issues which can hamper the businesses of several organisations. In present scenario,
there is a huge emphasis laid upon such cyber security and network issues because of the privacy
concerns of the customers. It is becoming difficult for the organisations to retain the customers
due to the privacy and security issues. The report will be prepared in respect with a small scale
organisation that develops applications in-house and customise off-the shelf software in
agreement with larger vendors (Liyanage, et al., 2016). The organisation is planning to diversify
its business by offering ongoing information and network security services to businesses that
have an online presence. And there is a need to effectively manage the online security of those
organisations, including their websites and client databases. The objective of this report is to
analyse the various possible solutions which can be taken use by the organisation in respect with
overcoming from all such issues. There will be provided a few recommendations which can help
the company to expand and diversify its business in the coming five years and to offer the
customers with secured are protected services without any kind of network and security
breaches. The key emphasis is led more upon the bottom line concerns i.e. the economic aspects
as the organisation is small scale and has a limited capital to invest on to save the business
processes from such issues (Bohli, Langendörfer and Skarmeta, 2013).
Network Security and its need for global businesses
There is increasing reliant upon the increasing and continuous use of internet in such a
digitalised global environment. Most of the work of both the small scale as well as large scale
organisations are now dependent upon internet and advanced technologies. Because of such
increasing reliant, it is essential to have adequate safeguards for protecting the businesses
transacting in the digitalised age (Khan, et al., 2016). The primary reason behind the initiatives
taken towards the networking and security is the rising threats and risks of cyber-attacks. And
this occurred as a strategic challenge for the organisations and the managers to take use of the
benefits of digital age and technological advancements but with sustaining the threat of security
issues and cyber-attacks (Stallings and Tahiliani, 2014). It has been seen that there is an