What is Enterprise Security Architecture? The alarming rate of cyberattacks within public and private sector organizations and government agencies worldwide calls for the need to protect information technology (IT) systems and the data within these systems from intruders in today’s technologic...
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Every investment, business operation, or transaction involves some form of risk. Risk is the likelihood that a threat will exploit a vulnerability, which may result in a compromise of information and information assets (Alali et al., 2018). Given the omnipresence of risk to every business operation,...
Data at rest (DAR) keeps data in one place, such as on a file system, databases, the cloud, big data lakes, computer and storage devices. Data at rest is usually affluent in information compared to data packets that are moved across the network, thereby making DAR very lucrative targets for cybercri...
What is Data Mining? Data mining is a subfield of data science that use sophisticated analytical methods to extract actionable insights from data (Jackson, 2002). The goal of data mining (DM) is to sift through large amounts of data in search of patterns or correlations that will be of value to the ...
What is Business Intelligence? Business intelligence (BI) is a data-driven process incorporating data gathering, storage, and knowledge management with analysis to inform business decisions (Negash & Gray, 2008). The data collected by a firm is one of its most precious assets, and business intel...
Risk management involves the process of identifying, assessing, and responding to threats to an organization’s assets by the implementation of security controls that support early risk detection and resolution (Samimi, 2020). On the other hand, risk assessment involves identifying vulnerabilities ...