North Shore Medical Research Proposal Paper

CMIT 321
Executive Proposal
Aicha Doudou
UMUC
May 9, yAs new technology emerges, the Internet evolve and computer network gets bigger and bigger, the need for network security has become one of the most important factors for all organizations and companies to consider (Popescu, 2013). Network security is important for an organization or company’s well being. Increasing network security decreases the change privacy spoofing, identity or information theft. Network security is something that companies should take seriously. An unsecured network system can comprises a company’s files and reputations all at the same time. An organization needs to use a tool that will ensure security efficiency and monitoring. North Shore Medical Research (NSMR)
After five years of extraordinary success in the development of innovative medical and pharmaceutical products, NSMR is on its way to becoming a major player in the medical research and development industry. However, due to its success, NSMR has also become a major target of cybercriminals. NSMR has been the victim of cybercriminal attempts to steal intellectual property and sell it to NSMR’s competitor. Management suspects the corporate network has been infiltrated from unauthorized sources more than once. In 2011, NSMR was falsely accused of unethical research and development practices. The false allegations resulted in the defacement of NSMR’s public website and several Denial of Service attacks at different times over a 9-month period that brought the corporate network to its knees. These attacks had a major impact on NSMR’s ability to conduct business and resulted in undesirable publicity for the company. Even with all the attack, NSMR has continued to grow as a company. Its research and development departments have grown over the years, due to the expansion of the company. NSMR’s innovative research and development information is vital to its continued success as a company. The security of NSMR’s network and intellectual property is a major concern for the company but management has been hesitant to spend expense on network security projects, due to the fact that NSMR is still a start up company. But that all change when NSMR’s learn of the attack on one of NSMR’s major competitors in the medical research and development industry for over 40 years, experienced a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in research data that was stolen from its corporate network by cyber thieves. NSMR needs to monitor network traffic in order to recognize and identify DDOS attacks and any other available attacks in real