Corporations and organizations play a vital role in mitigating and addressing issues that revolve around cybersecurity and its effects. While organizations have altered their approaches to address better the risks and costs associated with security breaches, this has not been the case for individuals. Cybersecurity is managed at the board level in some organizations rather than delegated to a separate committee or division, as is common in others. This approach can be beneficial when board members have extensive knowledge of information technology, systems implementation, and technology transformation. To fulfill the cybersecurity risk oversight responsibilities, several companies have begun to appoint technology experts and form technology committees at the management level. This committee’s existence allows information technology professionals to educate the rest of the cooperate leadership about cybersecurity risks. This practice increased the number of cybersafety committees among publicly traded companies between 2010 and 2016, continuing to rise year after year (Guiora, 2017). In other cases, the board of directors may delegate oversight of cyber risks to the audit committee or to a separate risk committee, which would then report to the board of directors on the matter. Whatever committee or board of directors is in charge of overseeing cybersecurity risks, the primary goal is for an organization to have an integrated approach to preparing for and protecting against cyber incidents and detecting and responding to them when they occur. In the book of Romans 13:4, the Bible states, ‘Because the ruler is God’s servant for your good. If you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not wield swords lightly. They are God’s servants, sent to punish the wrongdoer.’ Countries defend themselves whenever they are attacked by referring to misinterpretation, making the elders justify revenge actions (King James Bible, 2017).
Cybersecurity professionals ensure that all IT infrastructure, edge devices, networks, and data are protected to an extremely high level of protection. This group has three primary responsibilities: preventing data breaches, monitoring data breaches, and responding to data breaches. Many professionals are trained in programming, systems, network administration, mathematics, and statistical analysis. In the role of an IT security professional, critical thinking, curiosity, and a desire to learn and research are just as crucial as teachable skills in terms of job performance (Johnson, 2015). These characteristics can be found in people from all walks of life, and businesses should avoid limiting their applicant pools to a small number of candidates.
Additionally, hackers are inherently creative individuals who enjoy experimenting with new technologies. Personnel with exceptional abilities in the security field are in high demand. Because no organization is entirely safe from cybercrime, information technology security must be a top priority for everyone.
An instance of a cybersecurity breach is the Dharamsala attack, in which researchers discovered a sophisticated surveillance system in the Dalai Lama’s computer network in 2009. Further investigation revealed that the same network, dubbed GhostNet, had infiltrated targets in 103 countries, including political, economic, and media organizations. China was suspected of being the source of this surveillance network despite the evidence being circumstantial. Aside from that, it was unclear whether this network was run by a Chinese government-affiliated organization or by Chinese citizens motivated by the monetary or nationalistic gain (Khraisat & Alazab, 2021, p. 22). It was also unclear whether or not this network had any ties to the Chinese authorities. In cyberspace, technology’s capabilities are rapidly growing, and everyone is armed in the same way: hackers, criminals, politically motivated hacktivists, national spies, militaries, and even potential cyberterrorists. These cybercriminals all exploit the same vulnerabilities, employ the same hacking tools, attack strategies, and leave the same trail of evidence behind them. They listen in on conversations or steal information. They perpetrate distributed denial-of-service attacks by probing cyber defenses, where each tries to avoid detection and remain unanimous (Guiora, 2021, p. 10). Experts and professional services were brought together to mitigate the risks and enable a more practical approach to evaluation analysis. It makes it possible for an implementation strategy to include solution processes in the event of a cyber breach.
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Johnson, T. A. (2015). Cyber-security: Protecting critical infrastructures from cyber attack and cyber warfare.
Khraisat, A., & Alazab, A. (2021). A critical review of intrusion detection systems in the internet of things: Techniques, deployment strategy, validation strategy, attacks, public datasets, and challenges.Cybersecurity, 4(1), 1-27.
King James Bible. (2017). King James Bible Online.