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Today, In the era of Industry 4.0 revolution, organizations are massively using technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, Augmented reality, and artificial Intelligence. Cybersecurity has become an essential factor within organizations. Security incidents with many big corporations such as Target, Capitol one, Home depo, etc. have marked the importance of cybersecurity within organizations. Based on the increasing rate of cyber-attacks in recent years, organizations aim to implement high-end technologies such as Firewalls, Honeypots, Intrusion Detection Systems, etc. to detect the malicious activities, control the network traffic and protect the private data of customers. Government work with organizations to create policies, guidelines, and security programs to prevent and prepare for unwanted incidents such as cyber-attacks.

One of the severest security breach incidents happened with Capitol one in July 2019. According to (), highly confidential data such as 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social insurance numbers, and 80,000 personal bank account numbers were accessed by hackers. The incident noted as the misconfiguration of firewalls on the web server of Capitol one bank (). The Capitol had built its customized web application and was using the Amazon web service’s cloud platform to host the application. As a result, the web application was hacked by hackers as it was easier for them to inject into their web applications firewall configuration.