Human Aspects of Cyber Security

Analyze the challenges of managing human aspects of cyber security, with an emphasis on employees and the insider threat. Choose one organization (SONY) and discuss the effects on the company due to past incidents of cybercrime or cyber espionage.

1) First describe the mission of each organization, as found on their web site. Sony Mission; At Sony, our mission is to be a company that inspires and fulfills your curiosity. Our unlimited passion for technology, content and services, and relentless pursuit of innovation, drives us to deliver ground-breaking new excitement and entertainment in ways that only Sony can. Creating unique new cultures and experiences. Everything we do, is to move you emotionally.

 2) Discuss how each organization has been targeted in the recent past for cyber attack(s), as reported in news or journal articles.

 3) Describe the suspected threat actors.

 4) Discuss possible effects of culture that may have influenced these threat actors – possible effects of poverty, religion, poor local law enforcement, or tradition and ethical values.

   5) Describe regulatory requirements and describe possible liability issues that may be related to these cyber attacks. How should cyber policy controls be adjusted for each organization to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent disruption or theft due to possible future attacks?

   6) Describe trade-offs associated with your policy control recommendations and explain how these might affect the stated mission of each organization.

Hint: prepare an outline based on the questions asked in this assignment. The outline is not submitted as part of the final report, but it should be used to help structure your TOC. Also, the introduction should provide a brief preview for the reader, indicating what areas your research explored. Do this for all your research papers, both the individual and the team projects. Length: 4 pages not including table of contents, and references. Prepare paper in Word format. It should be double-spaced with one-inch margins all around. The citations and the reference list in the paper should be formatted in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines. Papers must include: cover page, table of contents, introduction, section headings and subheadings, conclusions, APA compliant in-text citations and list of references, and page numbers. The page count begins with the introduction and ends with the conclusions. The questions asked in the assignment should first be outlined (the outline is not included in the document), then the outline should be used to create the Table of Contents and the document sub-headings. The Introduction should briefly preview each sub-heading in the document.