In the era of rapid data digitalization, the notion of cybersecurity has become an extremely important matter in terms of enterprises’ data storage, privacy, and confidentiality. In order to make themselves feel more protected, companies make great financial contributions to cyber engineering and IT data protection. However, in order for the investment to be efficient, it is mandatory to anticipate all kinds of information leak probability, along with the appropriate attack response rate. Considering these peculiarities, one might reach the conclusion that the most crucial factors in terms of modern cybersecurity include individual awareness and the development of a proper neural cybersecurity network.
To dwell upon the necessity of these attributes, an example of a social engineering attack, along with the process of responding to the issue, will be presented. Thus, several years ago, a medium-sized enterprise was exposed to a cyber-attack, which was aimed at stealing all the crucial data about access to the company’s bank accounts. Since the overall financial situation within the enterprise did not allow the management to develop an extensive cybersecurity department, by the time they discovered an intrusion, the attackers had already managed to access the confidential information.
The company’s CEO issued a lawsuit on cybercrime, and the first thing assigned by the law enforcement facilities was an immediate initiation of an internal investigation. The detectives interrogated each of the employees in order to eliminate the risk of information leaks inside the company. Although no employee was found guilty of a crime, a thorough investigation showed that one of the financial department workers shared some confidential information during a private social media conversation with an acquaintance. Prior to filing a criminal charge, the detectives found out that nobody in the company was responsible for cybersecurity education for the employees. At present, the attackers have not been found, and the charges against the employee have been put on hold.
The following example demonstrates the primary importance of educating individuals on the subject of basic cyber protection patterns. Researchers claim that currently, the vast majority of people believe cybersecurity to be the IT department’s responsibility exclusively, feeling no need to be educated on how to manage confidential data (Ghafir et al.). That is, people do not understand how sharing sensible information on the Web might influence their employers and safety in general. For this reason, it is of crucial importance to develop a full-scale agenda of HR management education on basic labor rights, obligations, and cyber protection.
The issue described in the example tackled another problem relevant for modern enterprises – lack of finance allocation on cybersecurity and IT department in general. However, with today’s rapidly enhancing technology, supporting cyber safety departments will not obligatory benefit the level of the company’s protection. The only way to ensure such security is the implementation of a recurrent neural network, which enables the cyber protection mechanism to store the ways of attack attempts in order to anticipate and deal with future threats (Berman, 2019). Adherence to this advice, although costly for the overall company’s budget, significantly decreases the risks of social engineering attacks by limiting one’s possibilities of information leak and studying the patterns of cyber-attacks. Hence, the underestimation of cyber-attacks is a major mistake made by the enterprise’s management, as it leads to irrevocable damage.
Works Cited
Berman, Daniel S., et al. “A Survey of Deep Learning Methods for Cyber Security.” Information, vol. 10, no. 4, 2019, pp. 122.
Ghafir, Ibrahim, et al. “Social Engineering Attack Strategies and Defence Approaches.” 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud).