Cyber-attacks offer the ability to obliterate and interrupt an organization’s communication channels, security data center and facility remotely. Indeed, private and public organizations are often interlinked; hence, data breaches effect damaging impact on the organization’s confidence in protecting the economy and innocent citizens. Today, there is a crisis about organizations’ inability to resolve the age-old problem of how to control the abuse of trust and confidence given to authorized officials to freely logon onto the organization’s system, Many such officials , turn around to betray the organization by committing cybercrimes.
Vulnerability stems from interactions and communications among several system components and categorized as deficiency, weakness and security cavity on network data center.
To what extent do internal threats constitute a key factor against any organization’s ability to battle insider threats caused by people who abuse assigned privilege?
What is the most effective mechanism for organizations to combat internal threats?
Why should disgruntled employees must be trained on the danger of throwing wastepaper and electronic media in a bin within and outside the facility?
Internal Threats and Countermeasures
Insider threat continues to be a problem with approximately 50 percent of organizations experiencing at least one malicious insider incident per year (2017 U.S. State of Cyber crime Survey). Although the attack methods vary depending on the industry, the primary types of attacks identified by researchers at the CERT Insider Threat Center – theft of intellectual property, sabotage, fraud, and espionage – continue to hold true. Insider threats are influenced by a combination of technical, behavioral, and organizational issues. One of the best ways to prevent insider threats is to include procedures in your security policy to prevent and detect misuse. Your policy should also include guidelines for conducting insider misuse investigations. Try implementing strong, multi-factor authentication measures to extremely sensitive applications within your company. This will make it much more difficult for an unauthorized user to access sensitive data.
Free trade is a trade where countries carries out economic activities ‘without restrictions or barrier such as import and export tariffs’, barrier to market entry and policies (Johnston, Gregory, & Smith, 2011, free trade). Many countries have reaped benefits from free trade and especially developing countries. Some benefits include improvement in infrastructures, expanded markets, access to technologies, free movement of labour and capital, investment, and political relations in form of integrations. These benefits have played a major role in the economic developments of developing countries. However, some countries argue against free trade claiming that it is a burden to developing countries and they object it. Some arguments against include exploitation of developing countries by industrialised, environmental pollution, unemployment of domestic workers, and underperformance of domestic industries thus affecting the country’s economic growth. Free trade has positively impacted to developing countries by stimulating their economic development goals such as millennium development goals thus it can be said to be realistic in the real world.
Free trade was found to work out for countries such as Japan, South Korea, China, other East Asia countries, and most of the developed countries in the world. Trade liberalization led to development of these countries and to attainment of their current level of ‘developed countries’ in the world. The countries formed ‘free trade and economic partnership agreements that helped in negotiations of trade across borders was important in facilitating trade,’ technical support, services, environmental and social issues (Zeng, 2010 p. 651). The guidelines helped countries to carry out trade in a defined environment that prevented them from exploiting each other in terms of natural resources. As a result, the countries realised developments. This has also worked out for developing countries such as those in sub-Sahara Africa for example Egypt. Moreover, free trade agreements encourage foreign direct investments in developing countries increasing inward revenues to these countries. The increased revenues to these countries are channelled to development projects such infrastructures and improving social amen