{"id":294,"date":"2024-06-12T01:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/?p=294"},"modified":"2024-06-12T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T01:03:56","slug":"entry-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/2024\/06\/12\/entry-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry #4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are the costs and benefits of developing cybersecurity programs in business?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When trying to create a successful business, there needs to be a cybersecurity program in place to protect all assets within that business. Along with designing a cybersecurity program comes with both costs and benefits. The most notable cost for a program being the financial investment that is required to have effective security. Like everything else, implementing cybersecurity in a business also comes with a price. For example, during the initial setup stage there is the purchasing of hardware and software needed when first starting. Another cost for business is the investigation costs when there is a possible cyber-attack. There is also a price tag for businesses getting the justice system involved to investigate and justify the cyber-attack that occurred. A third cost when developing a cybersecurity program is recovering costs in the event of a successful cyberattack. For example, when a data breach occurs within a business, there needs to be actions in restoring data and the system as a whole. That restoration process takes both time and money in order to make that happen. On the other hand, there is the most important benefit when developing a cybersecurity program which is protecting that business\u2019s assets. Sensitive data within a business needs to be protected and a cybersecurity program\u2019s main purpose is to solve that problem. A benefit that some don\u2019t think of is the competitive advantage that comes with having a cybersecurity program. Having such program will draw the consumer\u2019s attention to choosing the protected business over the business that has lesser protection or none at all. Additionally, having a secure system will allow the business to focus on newer projects which will also apply to competitive advantage. That\u2019s just a list of few of many points on both sides of costs and benefits to businesses developing a cybersecurity program.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to create a successful business, there needs to be a cybersecurity program in place to protect all assets within that business. Along with designing a cybersecurity program comes with both costs and benefits. The most notable cost for a program being the financial investment that is required to have effective security. Like everything&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/2024\/06\/12\/entry-4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":29089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/avail003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}