Question

Take an example of any company to discuss the various consequences of breach of investigation duty. Respond to an intrusion and discuss how any breach of investigation duty disrupts the normal business of a company—costly at best and totally destructive in the worst case. Summarize your thoughts in a Word document and submit it to your instructor.

Answer 1

Consider a sales and marketing company. Breaching of investigation duty can have severe consequences. Some of these are the following:

Revenue loss:

Number one result of breach for such a company would be revenue loss. Research also shows that around 30% of businesses facing breach of investigation lose high revenue. For example, if the company had a non-functional application or website, customers would not even come to the site and check for other options in the market. And system downtime will cause many work disruptions.

Branding:

Breach often has a huge impact on branding as well. Revenue is the short-term loss and brand reputation is a long-term problem. The leakage of data or emails due to breach can cause problems with customer privacy. They won't trust their data with the company and have other security issues.

Intellectual property:

Breach also targets blueprints, designs, etc. Especially for manufacturing businesses. In this case, big and small all businesses get equally hit. This is also because these things are easy to attack. It has an impact on business competitiveness as well as total integrity.

Vandalism:

Malicious users also act like pranksters. A few modifications on the website etc. can lead to lot of damage to the business.