Accessing someone else’s confidential information without the owner’s permission is a serious crime that makes people and companies lose a lot of money, property, and respect. Different people have different perspectives this issue of hacking. The decisions depend on how a person understands the term, and the nature of threats available. Although, cyber terrorism is an issue of national security, some governments still cordon it with claims that it is a silent mode of crime and in most cases; the offenders end up unnoticed therefore; use it as a weapon to fight other organizations. Mitigation is the process whereby an individual, organization, or a nation uses some measures to counter any kind of threats that have already occurred or are about to occur. Through this process, organizations manage to secure their information and prevent attack by hackers (Blitz, 2012).
The various mitigation strategies used by organizations to control hacking are; spoofing threats, tampering threats, repudiation, and disclosure of information (Baier, D. N.D). According to Baier, mitigation ensures secure logging to information through eliminating spoofing threats whereby clients are able to prove their identities while at the same time, the server also prove their identities to clients. On the other hand, mitigation enables users to input harsh codes, like digital signatures, and NTFS Encrypting File System (EFS), that hackers find difficult to crack. In addition, Information Technology experts develop these mitigation practices therefore; an organization gets full assurance of non interruption of its services by hackers. In evaluating the best mitigation process to adapt to an organization, they closely analyze the working of each program. Different programs are designed for different applications thus an organization should select a protection method that suites them. Moreover, managers in an organization should seek advice from experts and other companies that have previously used such methods to come up with the best program to adopt (Meier at al, 2003).
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Blitz. (2009). DOS Attacks: Instigation and Mitigation. Retrieved from:
http://ethicsofhacking.blogspot.com/2009/03/dos-attacks-instigation-and-mitigation.html
Meier, J. D., Mackman, A., Dunner, M., Srinath, V., Escamilla, R., & Murukan, A. (2003).
Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures. Chapter 2. Retrieved from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648641.aspx
