Role Of Hacking In Business

Bryce Stewart

Mrs. Hamm

English IV

28 January 2018

Hacking and Businesses

Many businesses face the challenges imposed by hackers everyday. The way that businesses go about their security can mean the difference between the success and failure of the business. In fact, there are many instances of a hacker compromising even the largest of businesses. Hacking poses a major threat to small and corporate businesses.

To understand the problems faced by businesses, it helps to understand what hacking is. Hacking, as defined by Dictionary.com, is “to circumvent and break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent.” As a generalization, hacking has been linked to crimes such as schemes of banking and financial fraud, violations

Some hacking organizations will try to extract information, like a business’s research, their business strategies, and financial reports. The business on the participating side of the computer hacking may gain an abundance of other businesses information contributing to a greater competitive position and, in turn, provide to participating business with new clients. On the opposite side of this situation, this scale of information loss to a small business may surrender their competitive edge, resulting in losing their client base to the participating business, adequately hurting the small business

Employees must be trained for their awareness of said risks and dangers that are present (Davis). Purchases made from the company must only be made on secure, well-known, and trusted websites is the best way to make sure that personal information will not be intercepted. When using a smaller purchasing site, be sure that they use trustworthy payment processors, such as PayPal or Google Checkout. Private information should never be stored on a public computer. For example, do not choose to save the username or password. Do not give sensitive information to non-secure websites. An easy way to check if a website is secure is to look at the part of the URL that says “http” (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) or “https” (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). An employee should try to stick with websites listed as “https” as they are generally more secure. Useful web applications, like Facebook and Google Calendars, are starting to be used more often and employees need to know that they should not store sensitive information on these applications (Elmerraji). Another way to defend against hackers is to establish the appropriate security technology, like firewalls and antiviruses, onto the business’ computer systems. After proper security is in place, the settings and system options should be selected that meet the needs of the business. Proper upkeep in the security is important