Abstract
Cyber Security is a need for all the business organizations these days, it is an important business continuity planning issue which should be taken seriously by all the organizations. As not focusing on cyber security can lead an organization’s confidential data at risk and also get misused by the hackers. Therefore, an organization should focus on its infrastructure and management equally, to protect from facing more challenges and cyber-attacks.
Fundamental Challenges that organization face in general in regard to protecting organizational assets and information
Protecting Organizational assets and information has become a top priority for almost all organizations these days, the reason being the confidential data getting stolen and misused which leads to an organization’s great loss.
As cyber security is a global challenge today, the one of the most current challenges to protect organizational assets and information is the management network, this is a serious issue in all the organizations where they face this challenge. Managing a network has many theoretical and practical challenges which should be considered and focused on, as it can be more complex to manage a network, which leads to poor infrastructure leaving loopholes for hackers to get inside the network of an organization and steal confidential information.
The other challenge which the organization’s face in protecting its information is the lack of management, which is the lack of taking liable actions on time. Even if the organization has a good infrastructure which protects them from intruders, but if they fail to take actions
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