Information Governance Report: Privacy, Security, and Cyber Attacks

This report provides an overview of information governance, privacy, and security functions, focusing on the growing threat of cyberattacks. It identifies various types of cyberattacks, including malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks, and discusses the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals. The report highlights the vulnerabilities of various entities, such as governments, banks, and private individuals, to these attacks and emphasizes the need for updated tools, employee training, and educational campaigns to combat them. It explores privacy laws like the Federal Wiretapping Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The report also delves into the challenges of securing confidential e-documents, perimeter security limitations, and the roles of IAM, DLP, and IRM technologies. It underscores the importance of addressing insider threats and implementing robust security measures to protect data both within and outside the organization. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the cyber security landscape, offering valuable insights into threats, victims, perpetrators, and potential solutions.

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Both technology and increased internet access can easily bring a huge amount of positive
things. As a result of technological development in the domain of cyber-criminals can help in
robbing the banks. Cyber-attacks can be divided into two categories that are target to keep the
system offline and secondly to access the system data (Chhaya et al., 2017). There are mainly
seven kind of cyber-attacks like malware, phishing, denial of services, cryptojacking, SQL
injection, zero-day exploits. At present, system and access to internet can take of place of gun on
the web platform. Various kind of activities like phishing, spamming, web privacy can easily
take place in just one cubical way. There is a list of behind the growth of cyber-criminals in the
last few years. The current law enforcement agencies lack updated tools and technologies for
tackling cyber-attack (Al-Mohannadi et al., 2016). The victims lack some of the basics skills and
awareness of information technology until and unless it is late. Complete expertise for cyber-
attacks, training to employees, educational campaign needs to be there in both public and private
organization. The victims of this cyber-attack are government, school, banks, defence bodies,
private individual and defence contractor.
The target victim countries of cyber-attacks are
 Belgium
 Dominican republic
 Hong Kong
 Samoa
 China
 Tajikistan
 Australia
 Afghanistan

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 South Africa.
The target organization for cyber-attacks are
 Adobe reader
 Sony
 Target corporation
 Alteryx
 Equifax
 Adult friend finder
 Marriot hotels
 Yahoo.
There are various privacy law which can be applied for preventing any kind of data
breach
 Federal wire trapping Act
 Electronic communication privacy Act of 1986.
 Stored communication and Transaction Act
 Computer Fraud and Abuse act
 Freedom of information Act.

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