Organization Risk Management on Network Vulnerability and Potential Data Breach

Human beings depend on advanced technology in various ways to accomplish specific tasks daily. Technology like everything else has positive and negative implications depending upon how it is used. Technology is expensive to develop and maintain. Creating network systems have become easier, however; protecting or keeping the data secure has become more challenging. A recent study shows that cybercrime is the number one threat to the viability of organizations in various industries. Organizational leaders are responding to this vulnerability by investing millions of dollars into its data security infrastructure. How can an organization secure its data from being breached? The need for shielding records against network attacks has become critical given the increase in frequency and magnitude of data breaches. Organizational leaders must address network risks and vulnerabilities by protecting the organization's data and network system from hackers. IT security professionals can provide high-level service with cost effective solutions across the organization. Training each team member to use data security tools prior to a data breach will position organizations to shift from reactionary cultural to a more proactive culture, while simultaneously increasing the lead time to respond when a data breach incident occurs.