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    ITM2206 Group Assignment

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    A new employee at a company fell victim to a phishing attack which allowed hackers to orchestrate a ransomware attack. While the company's programmers were able to find the decryption key, the incident revealed the company's lack of adequate security training for employees and outdated systems without frequent backups. To prevent future attacks, the company plans to implement better security protocols, provide security training to all employees, and update their systems to continuously back up data.

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    A new employee at a company fell victim to a phishing attack which allowed hackers to orchestrate a ransomware attack. While the company's programmers were able to find the decryption key, the incident revealed the company's lack of adequate security training for employees and outdated systems without frequent backups. To prevent future attacks, the company plans to implement better security protocols, provide security training to all employees, and update their systems to continuously back up data.

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    A new employee at a company fell victim to a phishing attack which allowed hackers to orchestrate a ransomware attack. While the company's programmers were able to find the decryption key, the incident revealed the company's lack of adequate security training for employees and outdated systems without frequent backups. To prevent future attacks, the company plans to implement better security protocols, provide security training to all employees, and update their systems to continuously back up data.

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    A new employee at a company fell victim to a phishing attack which allowed hackers to orchestrate a ransomware attack. While the company's programmers were able to find the decryption key, the incident revealed the company's lack of adequate security training for employees and outdated systems without frequent backups. To prevent future attacks, the company plans to implement better security protocols, provide security training to all employees, and update their systems to continuously back up data.

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    0 Story line
    1.1. (New employee entering the company, careless enough to fall for a phishing attack
    which led to ransomware attack. Hacker succeeds in orchestrating a ransomware
    attack but company programmers managed to find the decryption key Company also
    at fault for sending confidential details in email and not preparing/training new
    employees well enough to prevent this attack)
    2.0 Technical details on how the company was exposed to this attack
    2.1. (Careless employees, unskilled system security analyst, outdated system (does not
    back up in lower intervals)). Explain in detail.
    3.0 Precautionary measures (relating to story)
    3.1. (Create better security protocols, train new employees to avoid security risks, update
    system to continuously back up server/user data so if a ransomware attack does
    occur then it doesn’t matter)
    4.0 Appendix
    4.1. (Minutes of meeting, work breakdown)

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