{"id":356,"date":"2025-04-28T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:18:06","slug":"entry-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/2025\/04\/28\/entry-7\/","title":{"rendered":"CYSE-200T: Journal Entry #7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What are the costs and benefits of developing cybersecurity programs in business?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cybersecurity programs can be very vital and bad to businesses. For most businesses, especially the ones that operate online, having a cyber defense is very important. First, they can help stop attackers trying to steal data from the company. It would be very bad for the company, so having a strong cyber program is crucial. Because the defense can defend the user\u2019s data, the users will develop more trust in the company. If the company is trusted very dearly by its customers, they will want to keep helping the company. Cybersecurity programs can also help keep costs to a minimum, no company wants to pay tons of money to compensate for the damage to users\u2019 data. Next, it also keeps your employees safe from attacks. Some attacks consist of getting hold of an employee\u2019s computer to then get access to other information. If the employee\u2019s computer is protected, there would not be any problem at all, and the company doesn\u2019t have to worry about potential data breaches or a loss of money.\u00a0 Another reason as to why it is a good idea to have a cyber program is that if private data about the company comes out it could potentially hurt the company. It is good to prevent having to pay your user damage compensation, because it can be very costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While there are a bunch of good reasons to have a good cybersecurity program, there are also a lot of costs that go into having one. The first reason is that it can be very costly for the company to have a cybersecurity program. The program itself can be costly because of having to hire employees to set up the systems and then have people manage them. You would also have to have people test the system to make sure that it is actually working and is strong enough, and that could cost a bit of money too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the costs and benefits of developing cybersecurity programs in business? Cybersecurity programs can be very vital and bad to businesses. For most businesses, especially the ones that operate online, having a cyber defense is very important. First, they can help stop attackers trying to steal data from the company. It would be very&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/2025\/04\/28\/entry-7\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19888,"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\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/phurl001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}