For this assignment, imagine that you are a cybersecurity consultant hired to id
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For this assignment, imagine that you are a cybersecurity consultant hired to identify the most significant cybersecurity threats to a company. You can choose any of the following companies:
Amazon
Boeing
Cisco
Costco
Comcast
Exxon-Mobil
Wells-Fargo Bank
Your local electric utility
Your local hospital
Write a memo to the CEO of the company describing what you believe are the three most serious threats to the company from cyberattacks. These could be attacks directly against the company, or attacks against others than have indirect effect on the company. You memo should describe the threat and who the threat would be coming from (e.g., competitors, disgruntled employees, foreign governments, etc.). You should mention if similar attacks have happened against other companies, since that would be more likely to cause the CEO to pay attention.
Keep in mind that the audience for this memo is a CEO. Don't tell the CEO that the company's webserver is susceptible to SQL injection – they don't know what that means and they don't need to. That's a topic for a memo to someone much lower in the company.
Also, don't try to tell the CEO what they should be doing to prevent the threats, just tell them about the threats. If they are happy with your work, you will get a follow-on contract where you can provide suggestions for what they can do to prevent them, but not now.
The format of the memo must follow the instructions in this document:
In the memo, the “To” line should not have my name in it, nor should the memo reference this class. Write it as a memo to the CEO of the company you have chosen.
The body of the memo must be at least 400 words long.
Explanation / Answer
To: XXX CEO
From: XXX Cyber Security Consultant
Date: May 12, 2016
Subject: Threats to our company (Amazon)
Being a cyber security consultant I have came across one serious concern that one hacker group has hacked our employees information center and hacked all the secret information like SSN number and bank details,email between employees and executive salaries and could be serious threat if that being published or misused for any terrorist activity or financial information intended for wrong doing and can break up our market value so Please take care of this biggest threat for Amazon.
Also I have got to know that our gadgets are prone to malwares developed by group of developers resulting into crashing of systems deployed in all gadgets like Kindle/mobile phones running on different OS platforms so take my words into consideration by setting up budgets for preventing this malware attack otherwise it will hamper our gadget section sale and existing gadgets working.
Lastly our ecommerce website is poised to get attacked by harsh hackers who have developed their own payment system and can vent into payment system and can do fraudulent transaction and at the same time they can crack our discount system and can buy anything at 100% discount by changing their algorithms can result into huge losses.
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