Data Breaches

The head of the IT security department expressed her concerns about series of data breaches that occurred in the company and mentioned that many employees ignored their system security warnings.

You have been asked to provide a summary of information to the entire team about data breaches and suggest proactive and preventative measures for warding off viruses. Your presentation will be sent out to all company employees, so the information must be clear, concise, and informative.

To prepare your presentation, use your personal computer to perform the following tasks:

• Identify whether you have an      anti-virus software running on your machine and from which company.
• Identify if a firewall is      enabled on your machine and consider why you might need one. 

Include the following:

• Define data breach
• Ways to determine if your system      was infected with a virus
• List two actions that should be      taken if a virus has infected your computer
• Instructions on locating      anti-virus and firewall software on systems
• Describe at least three      preventive measures against data breaches, both physical or digital
• Explain the importance of      security warnings and the impact of ignoring them 
• Describe (what, how      impact) two well-known data breaches and what actions (minimum of two)      were taken to resolve them. 

Create A 7 to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation

• Use a minimum of three      references formatted in APA in either presentation format above 

Note. Be sure to include supportive graphics and appropriate backgrounds and styles. All references need to adhere to APA guidelines and images should not be copyrighted unless cited properly.