Denright Law Offices: A Case Study

The technological advent has influenced many changes in the organizational information technology setting with more advanced systems being implemented to curb the ever increasing cases of data loss and the invasion of privacy. A recent research has illustrated that the increment of members with advanced skills in the modern day society has increased the rate at which the cybercrime occurs hence prompting the development of higher level security which means that organizations also have had to change to advanced systems that offer better security to organizational data. Although in the past the networks have been essential in giving organizations a chance for computers to share devices such as printers the basic and main advantage of computer networks are sharing of information. …show more content…
Denright Law Offices("DLC") is a law company that has used the modern computer network systems for its branches with a networked server system that allows all the branches to get access to all the files centrally. DLC was among the first companies to change from the peer-to-peer networks where any computer can act as a server or client to share and access resources respectively to the server based networks that have a server computer that answers requests for services from clients in the network and also authenticate users. The use of the server-based networks by DLC maximized performance since it centralizes user accounts and fewer administration needs due to eased maintenance. The demerits of server-based networks include high initial startup cost and failure of the main server (Stallings, 2003). In the case of server dysfunction, the entire system is considered invalid until the server is fixed, this problem is addressed by using RAID Systems that protect servers against irrecoverable