Throughout my corporation, I encounter some digital threats to my organization. Some of these include; data breaching, computer malware, viruses, denial of service attacks, and malicious insiders. Data breaching exposes classified or confidential information to someone outside of the organization. These can happen randomly and can be from anyone. This data can be stolen, copied, transferred, or viewed. These threats can be seriously harming to organizations, and can potentially corrupt them. These can be dangerous, even if they seem so basic. Computer malware is intrusive and hazardous software that infiltrates computers to steal information and corrupt platforms. These can be targeted and can potentially destroy computers and their systems. Viruses are malicious software that damages software and data. These aim to disrupt systems and cause operational issues. They infect certain programs and replicate themselves to infiltrate and insert their own code into systems. Denial of service attacks aims to make a system or computer unavailable to its intended users. These can disrupt services to certain networks and will ultimately shut down machines and block users from accessing certain sites. Malicious insiders is someone inside of an organization that chooses to sabotage their own information and can leak content, as well as steal and share the information. They use their privileged position to commit some devious acts and can lead to many issues within the organization.

I can use a plethora of utilities to help keep my organization safe, such as Cyber Resilience Reviews, Assessment Evaluation and Standardization Programs, Vulnerability Scanning, External Dependencies, and Safe Organization Practices. Cyber Resilience Reviews are interviews to assess the trustworthiness of employees and determine the organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity practices. These could be exploited by false user input and lies, leading to potential moles still in the system. Assessment Evaluation and Standardization Programs is a program launched by the CISA to expand the availability of organizations and individuals qualified to administer cybersecurity assessments in accordance with CISA’s standards and in a manner that provides data back to CISA for risk management purposes. This can also be corrupt by false user input, but is much harder as it is monitored by the CISA. Vulnerability Scanning is a process of identifying certain vulnerabilities and flaws in systems of organizations in order to help the organization respectively fix the situation. These could be manipulated by moles and they can find these weaknesses and use them against the organization. External Dependencies are certain factors that outside organizations and higher ups can set in place to help maintain boundaries in an organization. These can only be corrupted if there is a mole in the higher up organization, which is highly unlikely. Safe Organization Practices can be used to safely implement employees and maintain rules within an organization and stop threats from not letting them in to begin with. This could be exploited by lies and fraud.

The recommendations that I give to my company would be to; hiring, virus protection, install firewalls, strong passwords, and CISA protection. Better hiring for employees and harsher interviews to create a more challenging competition and slow the traffic of moles. Virus protection would protect the organization from viruses and keep files more protected. Firewalls would increase protection into the organization and would block out many outsider hackers. Strong passwords that would only be shared with a few employees and higher ups would create a challenge for both insider and outsider hackers to access confidential information. The CISA has many great protection standards and have tools to help keep your organization protected and safe.