Case Study 1:
Cyber Security in Business
Organizations

Abstract
This paper examines the importance of cyber security in business organizations and discovering better methods to combat cyber terrorism in the future. Data breaches in the work place have become an increased threat to personal privacy as well as to the economic livelihood of many organizations. In this paper we will further examine how a simple data breach almost brought the retail giant Target to the brink of destruction and provide detailed accounts of other recent data security breaches that have effected other business organizations and discuss what could be done to prevent them.

Cyber Security in Business Organizations
Modern global industries rely heavily on the data that they acquire to stay relevant in order to compete in a constantly moving world of technology. Protecting present and future data from potential cyber theft has become a vital need to the economic livelihood of today’s organizations. In today’s business world, organizations must prepare themselves for not only increased vulnerability attacks from exterior threats of cyber terrorist seeking to gain access to a company’s private data and resources but also have to take in account and be mindful of the interior threat of disgruntled employees whose mission is to expose or sale company sensitive or secret data for their own profitable gain. In today’s era of computing, cyber security can be described and defined in several ways. WhatIs .com defines Cyber Security as “The body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access.”(House, 2010) In my opinion, the common most fundamental problem that faces organizations today when it relates to cyber security is consistency. In an ever changing world of technology, the biggest