Assignment Overview

In this assignment, you will produce a well$-$researched paper$$focused on an organization that has suffered severe cyber security breaches that have led to the loss of revenue, client data, lawsuits, clients, governmental fines, new regulations to be adhered to$,$ as well as the immediate dismissals of Senior Management, for example, the Chief Information Officer at Target.The research paper must be $8$ to $10$ pages long, double$-$spaced in Times New Roman $12-$point font. The paper needs to include $3-4$ references to support your work.$$

Assignment Description

Cybersecurity breaches are costly$,$ damage companies' reputations, and erode trust in the company. This assignment demonstrates your ability to advise a company that has experienced a cybersecurity breach.$$As part of this assignment, you must include an introduction to the organization, its goals and objectives related to information technology initiatives, the current state of its information system and information technology security, the future state of initiatives based on their goals and objectives, and your perspective on how your selected organization should move forward in a way that eliminates breaches and enhances their future state.$$

Step $1.$Choose an organization from the following options: LinkedIn

Step $2.$Conduct background research and take notes from credible sources on the cybersecurity breaches your selected organization has faced over the past two decades. Make sure to save credible sources as you can use them in your paper as a citation.$$

Step $3.$Incorporate knowledge gained from this module into your research paper, including cybersecurity roles seen in your selected company, cybersecurity, and ethical leadership, the cybersecurity plan for that organization, time, resource, and revenue investment needed for strong security infrastructure, and the use of the CIA Triad and Golden Triangle and the benefits to the organization you selected.$$

Step $4.$Structure your paper with the following sections.$$

$1.$ Title Page$$

$2.$ Introduction to Organization

$3.$ Strategic and Tactical Goals and Objectives Related to Information Systems and Information Technology Initiatives

$4.$ Current State of Information Systems and Information Technology Security Components

$5.$ Future State of Initiatives

$6.$ Conclusion

$$Assignment Tips

$1$Introduction to Company. It must include an overview of the organization, a summary of its security breaches, and any related course content.

$2.$ Strategic and Tactical Goals and Objectives Related to Information Systems and Information Technology Initiatives. Include Initiatives that are specific to the advancement and deployment of security$-$based hardware and software systems such as SMART URL Filter $($eSURLF$)$ in a Zone$-$Based policy Firewall $($ZFW$)$ using evolving Spiking Neural Networks $($eSN$).$

$3.$ Current State of Information Systems and Information Technology Security Components. Include both hardware and software.$$

$4$ Future State of Initiatives. This is based on the strategic and tactical understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.$$

$5.$ Conclusion.In this conclusion, you should share your opinion on how the organization should move forward based on the future state, including a detailed and relational recommendation supported by external industry standards and business and technology components to eliminate these breaches and enhance their intended future state.$$

$6$ References. You must cite references in$-$text and include them in the reference list. These references can come from course resources but also organizational resources.