Assignment: Cybersecurity and Risk Management
Consider your organization or another organization that has been affected by a cyber-attack. Feel free to research current events on this topic if you do not have personal experience with an organization who has been affected by a cyber-attack. Once you have selected an organization, answer the following questions:
i. Provide a brief summary of the organization you have selected.
ii. What type of cyber-attack occurred?
iii. How did the organization respond to the attack?
iv. What were the impacts (or potential impacts) to the business?
v. What were the costs associated with the attack? If you do not have actual numbers, what types of costs were likely involved?
vi. What did the organization do to mitigate the risk of future attacks? Did the organization change its processes or procedures?
vii. As a business manager, what are some additional recommendations you would make to the organization, from a business perspective, to better defend itself in the future? What steps can the business take to better support the IT (information technology) department's security efforts? Explain.
viii. Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with at least two scholarly peer reviewed references supporting your answer. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references.
ix. Reply to at least two of your peers' initial posts. These replies need to be substantial and constructive in nature. They should add to the content of the post and evaluate/analyze that post's answers. Normal course dialogue doesn't fulfill these two peer replies but is expected throughout the course. Keep in mind that within your initial post, answering all course questions is required.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.