The Assignment is --- Imagine that you are a law enforcement officer and are assigned to present a cybercrime prevention workshop to a group of local businesses. Describing some common cybercrimes against businesses
Slide 1 Cyber Crime in businesses
Cyber- crime has become very common mostly due to the advancement in technology over the past decades.
Businesses have become easy targets for these crimes since they are very reliant on the technology to carry out their operations.
One of the major risks faced by businesses is the stealing of funds from their accounts by hackers or by the staff themselves (Choudhury, Basak & Guha, 2013)
Another form of cyber -crime to the businesses is the obtaining of information that is confidential to the businesses illegally.
The slowing down of operations is another form of cyber -crime where people deliberately cause down time in servers of businesses in order to slow down the operations. 119 words -- need 150 words so I need 31 words added here..
Slide 2 Forms of cyber crime
Cyber crime against businesses also encompasses the use of malware such as viruses.
Businesses have become alert in securing their information hence they use passwords which are also attacked.
Another form of attack is where attackers pose as the middlemen in order to obtain information from people.
People have developed software that are used to hack into people’s computers unknowingly.
Advertising has become a way of hacking where false adverts are put up and businesses may fall for them thinking they are real. 96 words -- need 150 words need 54 words added here
Slide 3 How the cyber crime is committed
The use of malware that is malicious is a common way of committing crime. When the malware is introduced on the system of a business it causes malfunctioning
Phishing is another way of doing cyber crime where people pose as administrators and ask for information from people who unknowingly give it to them.
Denial of service to people is another way of carrying out cyber crime. This causes a slow down in operations
This kind of attack is common known as distributed denial of service.
Companies need to be ware of this since the disruption may affect they security set ups during the disruption causing attacks to happen at this time. 114 words Need 150 words.. 36 words added here
Slide 4 How crime is done
Middle men are used in the case where people need to pose as the intermediary between the users in the business and the server.
This places the business at risk of exposing their sensitive and confidential information to people impersonating their middlemen.
Some malicious downloads are placed in sites where a business is known to use which introduces risks of hacking or even destruction of servers (Clough, 2015).
The downloads may come in many ways such as product advertisements online.
These ones pose the threats once they have been downloaded 95\words need 150 words … 55 words added here
Slide 5 How cyber crime is fought
Cyber crime has become an issue of national security since the threat is not only for businesses but also for the government too.
Firstly, cyber crime is fought though ensuring that people are aware that it is happening. This is done through educating them.
The law enforcers are therefore tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that people in the private sector have the necessary capacity to combat the crimes.
This can only be achieved through ensuring that the government and the businesses work together to combat the crimes as it should be.
By doing so, then the problems are able to be identified and solutions are found through this collaboration. 95 words need 150 words.. 55 words added here
Slide 6 How cyber crime is fought
The law enforcers have put in a lot of resources in to the fight against cyber crime.
The government has involved the use of experts such as the internet security analysts.
Through such people, the government is able to advise the businesses on the ways to be equipped to handle cyber crime.
Other than trying to prevent it, the internet security analysts are able to come in incase of attacks where they play a big role in the businesses in trying to apprehend the attackers.
The fight against cyber crime has become a priority for law enforcers in order to protect the public and private sectors 110 words need total 150 words.. 40 words added here
Slide 7 Preventing cyber crime
The law enforcers have put in a lot of resources in to the fight against cyber crime.
The government has involved the use of experts such as the internet security analysts.
Through such people, the government is able to advise the businesses on the ways to be equipped to handle cyber crime.
Other than trying to prevent it, the internet security analysts are able to come in incase of attacks where they play a big role in the businesses in trying to apprehend the attackers.
The fight against cyber crime has become a priority for law enforcers in order to protect the public and private sectors. 111 words need 150 words total - 39 words added here
Slide 8 Preventing cyber crime
The fight against cyber crime is intense and it is all aimed at preventing the attacks from happening.
Preventions starts by education and training. this means that people need to be properly equipped in order to handle crime.
Training ensures that the people in the businesses understand the causes and the influencers of cyber c rime.
The training also helps to raise flags in the case where attacks are about to happen and people become more careful.
proper containing of cyber crime is also a good way of preventing it since hackers get scared that they might be caught. 116 words need 150 words total --- 34 words added here
Slide 9 Preventing cyber crime
Cyber criminals are always out to improve on their skills of doing their work.
This means that the government has continuously aimed at ensuring that the investigators also stay informed in matters regarding cyber crime.
The government emphasizes on using of cross domains which help in ensuring that security levels are high.
Constant collaboration between the government and individuals helps to ensure that the security standards are kept at a high level (Das & Nayak, 2013).
By doing all this, then the government is able to play its part in preventing cyber crime.98 words-- need 150 total words..52 words added here
Slide 10Preventing cyber crime
Cyber crime is on the rise as technology advances, therefore, it is important that everybody plays their role in trying tot prevent it.
This is definitely a very critical area for the government mainly because people are contributors to the economy.
The government should protect its people I order to ensure that business is running properly and that the returns benefit the people and the government too.
Training on cyber crime should be done continuously to ensure that even new people in business know what is at risk.
By doing all this, then the threat of cyber crime is reduced significantly. 106 words need 150 word total…. 40 words added here
Slide 11 CONLCUSION
Business should protect themselves against cyber crime since it could be very damaging
The control of cyber crime should be done at the business level in collaboration with the federal government
The interest of every one is secure once the federal government and business work together. 49 words need 150 word count 101 words added here.