Question

Based on the opening case "Hackers Attack the SWIFT Global Banking network" and the closing case "U.S. Office of Personal Management Data Breach: No Routine Hack?", discuss what management, organization, and technology factors contribute information security issues.

Answer 1

Management: A majority of assaults are the work of skilled professionals. But, when people fail to realized the problem, and take it seriously by constantly being alert for a hack incident, or any other network vulnerabilities, because cyberattacks sometimes go unnoticed, and by the time it is too late. Butin some cases, although shields may be up, people override them, which opens a hole for the malware to get into systems. This has happened to OPM

Organization: Things like public and private organization continuously have shown a lack in proper planning for their security. This opens the way for cyberattacks. OPM was warned numerous times, about their security vulnerabilities. On March of 2015, OPM Inspector General semi-annual reportto Congress explained that there were persistent deficiencies in the OPM system security. Things like unfinished security authorization packages, flaws in testing information security controls, also unreliable choices of actions

Technology: Trying to find the identities of specific attackers from cyberspace is close to impossible. Many security experts have claimed the biggest mistake OPM made was a failure to realize