Winter’s Tale Publishing; a Hack job The case centers around the liabilities in which poor management can expose a company as well as the side effects that a cyber-intruder can have on a business' operations. Secondary issues explored include, auditing the company’s framework to evaluate their internal control structure, designing a secure IT network for start-up businesses, and address their legal and marketing worries if the organization were to be hacked.
The Winter's Tale Publishing case describes, a startup publishing house started by Mr. John Winters; after he successfully publishing his own book. The company grew quickly, but failed to ensure several pertinent areas were up to industry standards. These failures would later manifest themselves in a huge way. Winter's Tale started out by building interest in a soon-to-be-published tell-all book. With all of the debate centered on the publishing of this controversial book, Winter's Tale's servers were hacked. The hackers accessed personal …show more content…
They can also create audio books for people who are on the move and find it difficult to read from a traditional book or even a digital copy. The company must channel their energy into cybersecurity for the future and not focuses on incidents and how to deal with them after the fact. But focus their concerns on prevention with an investment in a better cybersecurity system. Their action is surprising in a world where there is a continued battle between hackers and various societal actors attempting to protect their systems. Cybersecurity is said to be the new form of war and is viewed as the next platform in modern warfare (Bruijn & Janssen, 2017). Given its importance, why is there so little awareness? And why are we not taking more drastic measures to protect our
The Winter's Tale Publishing case describes, a startup publishing house started by Mr. John Winters; after he successfully publishing his own book. The company grew quickly, but failed to ensure several pertinent areas were up to industry standards. These failures would later manifest themselves in a huge way. Winter's Tale started out by building interest in a soon-to-be-published tell-all book. With all of the debate centered on the publishing of this controversial book, Winter's Tale's servers were hacked. The hackers accessed personal …show more content…
They can also create audio books for people who are on the move and find it difficult to read from a traditional book or even a digital copy. The company must channel their energy into cybersecurity for the future and not focuses on incidents and how to deal with them after the fact. But focus their concerns on prevention with an investment in a better cybersecurity system. Their action is surprising in a world where there is a continued battle between hackers and various societal actors attempting to protect their systems. Cybersecurity is said to be the new form of war and is viewed as the next platform in modern warfare (Bruijn & Janssen, 2017). Given its importance, why is there so little awareness? And why are we not taking more drastic measures to protect our