University Cyber Security Report: ABC Technology and Threats

This report examines the importance of cyber security for ABC Technology, focusing on protecting confidential information and operational activities. It outlines the need for security measures such as cloud security, data loss prevention, and antivirus software to defend against threats like DOS attacks, malware, and snooping. The report identifies security vulnerabilities within ABC Technology's systems, details various emerging threats, their potential consequences, and the responsible parties behind such attacks. Furthermore, it provides recommendations for protecting office and home information from cyber attacks, including the implementation of encryption technology, employee training, and application firewalls. The report concludes by emphasizing the critical need for robust cyber security strategies to ensure the company's continued operational success and data integrity. The provided references support the analysis and recommendations.

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Executive summary
This report depicts the importance of using cyber security aspects in the ABC technology to
protect their confidential information and other operational and functional activities. In order to
protect the company from cyber criminals and cyber attacks like DOS, malware injection,
Spoofing, snooping etc the security measures those are needed to be adopted include cloud
security, data loss prevention, identify and access management, antivirus, anti malware etc. the
reasons for which cyber security is required in ABC technologies are elaborated in this report. In
addition to this, the security vulnerabilities, emerging threats that may interrupt their operations
are also elaborated in this paper.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
1. Explaining Cyber Security.......................................................................................................3
1.1 Description of Cyber Security...............................................................................................3
1.2 Importance of Cyber Security in ABC technologies.............................................................3
2. Identification and explanation of security vulnerabilities in ABCT’s system.............................3
3. Emerging threats in ABC technologies.......................................................................................4
3.1 Different types of emerging threats.......................................................................................4
3.2 The consequences/damage of the attack................................................................................4
3.3 Responsible person of the attack and their attack technique.................................................5
4. Recommendations to protect office information home from cyber attack..................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference list...................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The recent evolution of computing networking is also increasing the rate of cyber
security challenges and issues. These challenges are again impacting the expected commercial
revenue and competitive advantages of the business organization (Garcia-Perez, Thurlbeck &
How, 2017). The company nominated which requires cyber security for this particular report is
ABC technology. The business line of the company ranges from various high technology based
products that include both the hardware and software products. Countrywide the company has
multiple numbers of offices and also two offices overseas.
The company offers their services through VPN. During business operation different
emerging threats that may interrupt security of the company and the possible negative impact of
these emerging threats are all illustrated in this report. The emerging technologies or technical
excellence that are widely using by different business organizations are cloud computing, big
data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet Of Things (IoT) etc. the definition of cyber
security importance of Cyber security in the ABC technology are elaborated in this report, It has
been determined that the company is facing major security challenged these days.
1. Explaining Cyber Security
1.1 Description of Cyber Security
1.2 Importance of Cyber Security in ABC technologies
2. Identification and explanation of security vulnerabilities in ABCT’s system
Denial of Service attack: Buffer-flow attack:

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Syn flood attack:
Phising cyber attack:
Snooping attack:
Justification of the answer
3. Emerging threats in ABC technologies
3.1 Different types of emerging threats
Bringing personal devices:
Lack of security in the network channel:
Use of cloud technology for string data:
Lack of security policy:
Absence of cryptography mechanism for protecting data: .
3.2 The consequences/damage of the attack
Damage data:
Misuse of information:
Failure to meet the expectation of the company:

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3.3 Responsible person of the attack and their attack technique
4. Recommendations to protect office information home from cyber attack
Implementation of encryption technology:
Implementation of on job technical training:
Implementation of application firewall:
Conclusion
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