Cybersecurity Incident: Deloitte's Data Breach Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of the Deloitte cyber-attack, examining the incident's impact on cybersecurity, ethical considerations, and legal implications. The analysis begins with an overview of the cyber-attack, detailing the nature of the data breach and the compromised systems. The report then explores the ethical dimensions, particularly the lack of full disclosure regarding the extent of the breach and its impact on clients. Legal and social issues are also examined, highlighting the need for robust data protection policies and the potential for legal action. The report discusses the security and privacy issues associated with modern technologies, including unauthorized access, data breaches, and malware attacks. Finally, the report references the importance of ethical standards and provides a framework for improving cybersecurity practices within organizations, emphasizing the need for continual improvement in security, privacy, and ethical considerations.

Computer Systems & Security
Deloitte cyber-attack
In response to the cyber-incident, Deloitte initiated a review to understand the
current scope of incident, potential impact on the client and other stakeholder. This
type of cyber-attack incident has been occurred that compromised account
credentials, ultimately gained access to single cloud based platform of Deloitte
(Karimi and Krit, 2019). As per identified the security team of Deloitte, whereas
attacker can perform unauthorized access to email platform. Afterwards, company
have been initiated to include a proper standards and response process for engaged
with specialist to assure themselves. Usually, this type of incident was happened in
2016 and their client have been told about information that was impacted by
hackers. Afterwards, Deloitte immediately perform action and review the incident
which is ongoing.
Data breaches
During incident of Deloitte cyber-attack, it has been increased the
chances of data breach, corporate finance giant Deloitte suffered as
cyber-attack and compromised with confidential data or information
(Abraham, Saravanan and Smith, 2019). At some point, it also
including private emails of clients, confirmed by company.
The entire system had been accessed through email platform but very
few client affected according to Deloitte. Additionally, Guardian had
been discovered in March but it could happened month earlier. It is not
confirmed exactly how many people had been affected and comprised
sensitive information or data.
Ethical, legal and social issues
In context of ethical issue, Pertaining or dealing with moral activities
and principles of morality. When Deloitte should not disclosure the
exactly number of data comprised during cyber-attack. Thus, it has
increased the ethical issue because every clients have a right to know
about certain things. Therefore, it will be increasing conflicts among
management and clients.
In context of legal and social issue, Deloitte needs to adopt a valid legal
policies and procedures that help for protecting or securing private
information. In case if any kind of misconducting situation happened
where client have a legal right to take action against company.
Legal, ethical and social impact on cyber
security incidents
Legal, ethical and social are considered as important factors that can
utilise uncertain activities during cyber security incident. To help
benchmark a Deloitte’s cyber security policies, program. Here are some
important continual themes in order to improve the performance,
privacy and security. Sometimes, it is mandatory for enterprise to
implement ethical standards in term of cyber security.
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Cyber security
A fundamental shift is occurring in management of various cyber related risk,
threats. A great idea about the cyber-attack, which is increasingly the affected on
the business process. Initially, it begin to take hold among different boards and
executives. As a business leaders that are realizing and establish interconnection
with global world through different technologies. Modern techniques are basically
designed to share information but not completely protecting.
Furthermore, it has been identified the real incident of Deloitte cyber-attack and
controlled by security aspects. This can possible with modern technology to secure
or protect the sensitive information or data of client, stakeholders.
Security and privacy issues of modern technology
There are different security or privacy issues occurred in modern technologies:
 Unauthorised access
 Data breach
 Malware attacked
 Damaged sensitive data or information