Anatomy of the Body

Joseph K. Parks

Ernest Newman Jr.

Joel Obando

Strategic Security

December 3, 2012

WBIT 2000

Instructor Cheryl Garvin

Strategic security is the protection for one or more of the following aspects of data; confidentiality, integrity and availability. (Computer Crimes,) The protection of hardware is not something that merely larger corporation should be worried about also it is something that should be of primary concern to the small business owner. Surveys have found that often small business owners feel as though they aren’t as likely to be targeted by high tech criminals because they aren’t as lucrative as big businesses. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth as a survey done by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2000 found that that 85 percent of all businesses from all sizes and areas of focus had been the victim of some type of high tech crime. Statistics have been even worse for hardware and computers with the cost of theft and loss in 1996 reaching 1.4 billion USD. (Computer Crimes,)

Security measures are put in place to prevent the types of things that could cost companies money (theft, viruses). However, in some cases it can be quite difficult to put a dollar amount on damages when it comes to the loss of life such as when the military or hospitals may be targeted. It is equally difficult to assess loss of reputation when something may be done to soil a company’s good name. (Computer Crimes,) The question becomes not just whether companies should worry about these threats or ignore them but what they should do about them; how much time, money and manpower should the invest to do their very best to prevent them. First the organization must determine the level of and likelihood of the threat to determine what actions to take.

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