You are aware that Fullsoft recently experienced a malware attack; as a result,

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You are aware that Fullsoft recently experienced a malware attack; as a result, proprietary information seems to have been leaked. The company is now in the process of recovering from this breach.

I am holding a instrastructure operations team meeting soon. To prepare for the meeting, be prepared to address the following questions:

How would you assess the risks, threats, and/or vulnerabilities that may have allowed this incident to occur, or could allow a similar incident to occur in the future?

What insights about risks, threats, and/or vulnerabilities can you glean from reports of similar incidents that have occurred in other organizations?

What potential outcomes should the company anticipate as a result of the malware attack and possible exposure of intellectual property?

Which countermeasures would you recommend the company implement to detect current vulnerabilities, respond to the effects of this and other successful attacks, and prevent future incidents?

Write an outline of key points (related to the questions above) that the team should discuss at the meeting.

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Risk, Threats or vulnerabilities of Malware attack

So, we all are aware that our company has recently attacked by Virus or malware that has caused significant damage to out organization and we have undergone a huge loss in business. So, this meeting is held in order to discuss what are the risk and how to recover maximum from this risk. Here are the few possibilities which may lead to the occurrence of this incident:

So, these are the possibilities through which the malware could have entered and thereby causing all the damage to the organization. So we should be careful regarding these risk and we should do accordingly.

Now based on the impact the malware had created, I analyzed these are the risk which was caused by the malware which are common to both our organization and other organizations. The impact of this virus not only affected us but also other organizations are also a victim of that. Here are the issues or threats created by this virus:

Countermeasures to reduce the risk of a malware attack on near future and also to minimize the effect of this malware:

These are steps we need to follow to eradicate the affect of the malware and also can stop the malware attack in near future.

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