As a concept cloud computing is well commended because of the benefits it offers. However, there are many users who are not clear about the capacity of security of cloud computing. Many surveys point out that security in the cloud remains the top concern for many businesses in their decision making in spite of the cost advantages it offers. Security breach is a situation where an individual intentionally surpass or abuses a network, system or data access to gain profit and results in negatively affecting the security of the organization’s system, operation, and data. In today’s digital world, most individuals leave long electronic traces of private information wherever they go. But too often, that data is compromised. Data breach takes on many …show more content…
Data security has been major in media coverage for some time. There are reports that discuss the current issue of security breach and how companies should understand security threats and how to identify cyber vulnerabilities. During the past year, more than 400 data breach investigations were performed in various countries. According to the 2013 Global Security Report, “From these investigations, Trustwave determined that attacks in 2012 originated in 29 different countries, with the largest percentage originating in Romania—a country known as a hotbed of criminal activity, specifically for organized crime focused on obtaining cardholder data (CHD)” (p. 7). Trustwave presented a map of the basic locations that where criminals are attacking the most. However, the criminals who are attacking are doing so through dysfunctional IP addresses and networks so that their actual location cannot be …show more content…
Therefore, businesses major concern is how safe cloud computing really is. Even though all technology provides top security to protect users’ data there is no such thing as a completely safe system. Some of the risks that users receive when storing data are cyber-attacks, someone else looking after your data, insider threats, government intrusion, legal liability, lack of standardization, and lack of support. Using services like Iaas, Saas, and PaaS along with public, private, and hybrid models can involve major security risks. These security issues “are considered in two views first in the view of service provider who insures that services provided by them should be secure and also manages the customer’s identity management” (Sharma, 2014, p. 2). While cloud computing has various beneficial factors, there are challenges that are faced along with those benefits.
In addition, companies are increasingly aware of the value that cloud computing has in a business aspect. However, it is essential to understand the challenges, as well as the benefits involved in cloud computing before making a transition. The challenges are the
As its core essences cloud computing is nothing but a specialized form of grid computing and distributing computing’s which various in terms of infrastructure , deployment, service and Geographic’s dispersion (Veeramachanenin, Sepetember 2015) the cloud enhance scalability, collaboration, availability , ability to adapt to fluctuation according to demand accelerate development work and provide optional for cost reduction and through efficient and optimized computing. (BH kawljeet, June 2015) cloud computing (CC) recently become as a new paradigm for the delivery and hosting of services our the internet. There are mainly three service delivery model Software as Service (SaaS) required software, operating system and network is provided or we can say in SaaS the customer can access the hosted software instead of installing it in local computer and the user can access these software through local computer internet browser (e.g web enabled E-mail ) the user only pay and the cloud service provider is responsible for management or control of mobile cloud infrastructure some of the company which provide such service are Google, Microsoft , Salesforce ,Facebook, etc…..Infrastructure as Service(IaaS)the cloud provider only provide some hardware resources such as network and virtualization is
The year 2013 was not one marked for pride for the retail chain, Target. They had one of the largest data breaches known to date that occurred between November 27th and December 15th. Not only was this the one of the largest attacks known to date of this kind, it was also quite eye opening to many who may not have paid any attention to the world of information security. The Target hack resulted in 40 million compromised credit and debit card accounts and that was just the initial known result. After some time, the research revealed that a total of as many as 110 million Target customers were the victims of this gigantic hack. Although computer crimes occur within the United States often, the bigger problem is that criminals from other countries across the oceans are attacking as well.
As the use of the internet leaves a footprint on every location that you travel while using it, IP addresses can also be obtained through a cloning process called ‘spoofing’. When that happens, a person obtains the IP address of a person who is using the internet at a particular time. So when criminal activities are observed and there is an attempt at prosecution, the law enforcement agency may find that its culprit, thought to be in Asia, is actually sitting in a house right beside it. (Walker, Brock, & Stuart,
About 15 million United States residents have their identities and information used fraudulently each year. Along the use of their identities, they also had a combined financial loss totaling up to almost $50 billion. Major companies such as Apple, Verizon, Target, Sony, and many more have been victims of consumer information hacking. In each of the cases, millions of consumers’ personal information has been breached. In the article “Home Depot 's 56 Million Card Breach Bigger Than Target 's” on September 18, 2014, 56 million cards were breached due to cyber attackers. Before the Home Depot attack, Target had 40 million cards breached. Company’s information is constantly being breached and the consumers’ are the ones who end up having to pay the price. If a company cannot protect the information it takes, then it should not collect the information.
In todays fast pace world of technology many of us leave ourselves vulnerable to become victims of a cybercrime. With people using the internet to do everything from paying bills, personal banking, and on-line shopping their financial and personal information is available at the stroke of a key to a hacker. Often someone is unaware that they have been attacked and had their information stolen. The use of the internet has grown exorbitantly throughout the world. Nelson Online reported that as of December 31, 2014, there were 360,985,492 users of the internet throughout the world. (2015) With so many users in so many countries accessing the internet, prosecuting cybercrimes is nearly impossible.
1.0 Incident: The Arby’s fast-food chain recently experienced a data breach. The breach introduced malicious software that was similar to other recent point-of-sales malware, onto the company’s payment card systems at hundred of its corporate locations across the nation. Arby’s would not inform the public of how long the malware was thought to have been on their systems, however, it is estimated to transpire some time between October 25, 2016 and January 19, 2017. 2.0 Analysis: According to the Fast Food Chain Arby’s Acknowledges Breach article, the first clues about a possible breach at the fast-food chain came in a non-public alert delivered by the Payment Solutions for Credit Unions (PSCU), who obliges to over eight hundred credit unions.
The data breach at Target had a massive impact on cyber security. According to Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, we live in a world where consumers don’t even think twice about paying with a credit or debit card or buying items online or with mobile devices (2014). However, data breaches have become a major threat and continue to impact companies all over the world. Companies should take information security as seriously as possible. We don’t live in a perfect world. Anything can happen at any time, even if a company has the most sophisticated security system in place. It is how a company reacts to a data breach that will make or break them.
A Look Back at Recent Data Security Breaches Summary The year is 2014 and it does not look like is getting tougher day by day. Many firms have felt the impact of data breaches in the past. The tech industry seems the most vulnerable with every day bringing the world another security breach.
It would be very difficult to ignore the potential benefits of cloud computing, but it also brings a number of new and worrying risks. Following are typical control requirements or opportunities that businesses may need to consider when considering a move to the cloud
Cloud computing facilitates sharing of computing and storage resources with the aim of reducing computing expenses in organizations. Moreover, cloud computing facilitates information sharing among individuals within a cloud. Despite being advantageous, data stored in a cloud is usually prone to hacking and other security issues. This paper addresses the various mitigation measures that organizations are using to ensure that data stored in the cloud is secure.
Cloud computing is able to increase the speed of business. Cloud computing offers the speed to make computing resources on an instance basis, not just need to first survey time and skilled resources in design and implement infrastructure and applications to deploy and test it. Cloud computing can engance revenue, share bigger market, or other advantages.
According to a recent research conducted by renowned Security Professionals, the major causes of data breach can be categorized into: 3.1 MALICIOUS ATTACKS Malware and hacking are the most potent and long-established causes of security breaches. Malware attacks and data loss are growing concerns for businesses around the world. To give a clear example, Zeus Trojan was modeled to steal financial information from the system influenced by it. By means of website monitoring and key logging, the malware identified the keystrokes used to log in and swiped information. 3.2 HUMAN FACTOR
"Preventing the Next Data Breach." New York Times 26 Jan. 2014: 14(L). Global Issues In Context. Web. 14 Feb. 2014.
Cyber crime has become an important concern for not only the business firms, government, law enforcement agencies but also for the common people because these kinds of issues are related to the consumer’s day-to-day activity (Polivanyuk, 2005). Due to these types of crimes, consumer’s money, children, business organization’s integrity, consumer and company’s privacy, etc. are in danger.
...ng to many individuals who have suffered from hacking, phishing, scams, identity theft, fraud etc. Computer crime describes a very broad category of offenses, which include anything that requires an electronic device or the Internet. Cybercrime is now a global issue and it has a major impact on every individual or business that interacts with technology and the World Wide Web. When important information is stolen, not only are individuals at risk of becoming part of greater crimes but it can also affect an entire country when its national secrets are stolen. In the end I may conclude that computer crime is a dangerous crime that all individuals should be aware of due to the many devastating results it can cause. Cybercrime cannot be stopped due to the high levels it has reached, but immunity can be used to keep safe from it or at least keep individuals less at risk.