IT Project Plan & Presentation

Project Data Security Plan

Introduction

Organizations have continued to witness a couple of cyber threats and insecurity issues that compromise their databases. Typically, hackers employ malware devices to attack organizations database by sending malicious email to various units in a company (Marg, 2017). Moreover, organizations ought to identify possible cyber threats which make their database vulnerable to hackers. The paper describes internal and external threats to a database as well as the type of security and prevention technology for handling privacy and financial information for the company.

One of the internal threats of the company database include the employees working in the various department (Basu, 2015). Most employees have password access to either private or financial records of a company. Hence, they can quickly attack the system and compromise the organization information. Secondly, an internal threat can result due to the use of losing universal serial bus (USB) from one computer to another (Olenski, 2017). Such USB devices entail malicious malware which corrupts the database information. On the contrary, external threats come from the hackers not working within the company premise. An excellent example of an external threat is the use of malicious malware either in sending emails or downloading messages from the internet. On opening such downloads, they end up corrupting the entire database of an organization. Another fundamental external threat is hacking of the passwords by the cyber attackers. In cases where a company database has a weak password, it is under the risk of breaching from external attackers.

Regarding the internal type of insecurity, such as usage of viral universal serial bus, the company needs to educate its employees on the implication of such devices towards the database (Quiocho, 2018). Similarly, a company may install updated anti-virus devices in the computers for scanning USB gadgets prone to entail malicious malware. An external threat like password breaching is typical in an organization set up (Griffin, 2012). Thus, the company can encourage their workforce to create strong passwords and use of biometric information to avoid cyber-attacks which can expose their privacy and financial database into unauthorized hands (University of Phoenix, 2019). In summary, breaching of databases is a common issue affecting the e-commerce industry, but with useful information technology like creating strong passwords it is possible to maintain projects and data privacy.

References

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Marg, A. (2017, June 23). 6 Hacks: Save Your Data from Internal & External Security Threats. Retrieved from NewGenapps.com: https://www.newgenapps.com/blog/internal-and-external-security-threats

Olenski, S. (2017, December 08). Is The Data On Your Business' Digital Devices Safe? Retrieved from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/12/08/is-the-data-on-your-business-digital-devices-safe/#2030590b4c6a

Quiocho, C. (2018, August 31). Why Cybersecurity Is Becoming A Top-Priority Investment. Retrieved from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2018/08/31/why-cybersecurity-is-becoming-a-top-priority-investment/#4d1ca73011f3

Griffin, R. C. (2012). Cybercrime. Journal of international commercial law and technology. 7(2)136.

The University of Phoenix. (2019, February 14). Guide: Information Systems & Technology. Retrieved from The University of Phoenix. https://library.phoenix.edu/libraryhandbook