Today business is moving faster than it ever has before. With the Internet and e-commerce, even brick and mortar businesses are now open twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. However, there are security threats that linger with this new age of business that need to be mitigated. According to a survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Symantec, a company that offers security solutions, seventy-seven percent of small businesses believe that they will not fall victim to security issues (Symantec, 2012). Even more alarming is that the survey found that eighty-three percent of these businesses did not have any form of security plan.
The projected growth of the Deli and Dessert Co. (DAD’s) makes it essential to implement security procedures to protect the business today and in the future. This document will outline the approach, risks, and recommendations of a formal security plan to better prepare for the uncertainties.
Approach
In an ideal world, there would be an unlimited amount of money to fund security procedures. However, this is not something feasible for most small businesses. The recommendations laid out in this proposal take into consideration DAD’s budget and provide the minimum requirements for protection within that budget. Additionally, recommendations are made to bring an even higher level of security to the business.
As with any security plan, it will be necessary to balance security and convenience. Anytime security is increased, there is an inverse relationship with convenience (Ciampa, 2014, p.10-11). Therefore, the solutions presented also take into consideration a maximum level of security without compromising too much convenience.
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When an organization first starts out, they start gaining things. They have new buildings, offices, and equipment in them. Their buildings and offices have value. With everything of value this organization has, they will need some sort of protection to make sure the business as well as the employees stay safe at all times. The conversation should go from the “we have acquired all of this stuff, now what are we going to do to keep it safe?” Then the company needs to decide how they will handle the issue of protecting all the things that they own.
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Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
The idea which has been proposed in this proposal is about security bracelet which would work through a website. The website would provide security solutions to system security of companies and government institutions. The security bracelet would also provide opportunities for risk assessment, management, and cost reduction. Security compliance, firewall management,Idea of Security bracelet 4 email and cloud security, risk assessment through network analysis, malware analysis, wireless security, and other IT solutions would be provided to the users. The security would e provided to clients against monthly fee for the contracted period.
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As electronic commerce, online business-to-business operations, and global connectivity have become vital components of a successful business strategy, enterprises have adopted security processes and practices to protect information assets. But if you look at today's computing environments, system security is a horrible game of numbers: there are currently over 9,223 publicly released vulnerabilities covering known security holes in a massive range of applications from popular Operating Systems through to obscure and relatively unknown web applications. [01] Over 300 new vulnerabilities are being discovered and released each month. Most companies work diligently to maintain an efficient, effective security policy, implementing the latest products and services to prevent fraud, vandalism, sabotage, and denial of service attacks. But the fact is you have to patch every hole of your system, but an attacker need find only one to get into your environment. Whilst many organisations subscribe to major vendor's security alerts, these are just the tip of the security iceberg and even these are often ignored. For example, the patch for the Code Red worm was available some weeks before the worm was released. [02]
Ultimately the end users turn out to be the weak link in the security chain as they ignore the latest security trends and install outdated devices that do not support the latest security features. An example would be that of an outdated wireless router that does not support WPA encryption. By proposing a simple solution that lets the users configure their wireless access points for best possible security, the problem can be nipped in the bud.
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