Essay Questions You are not allowed to include direct quotes from any source in your answers to the essay questions. Everything you submit must be in your own words. (10 points) Question 2. You are in charge of IT for an electric utility. The CEO of the company suggests disconnecting the company\'s computer network from the internet so that you don\'t have to worry about all of that “cybersecurity stuff”. Describe two reasons why you would still have to worry about all of that cybersecurity stuff. (your answer to this question should be 100-200 words ) Solution Today the CEO of our company suggested disconnecting the company\'s network from the internet because of the constant worries of the cybersecurity stuff. As it affect the financial position of the company very badly.In worst cases the company might even collapse.These all the companies around the globe are being targeted and attacked by hackers.This has become a major issue of concern for every standard company. Today,inspite of our CEO suggesting the disconnection of network,there is no satisfaction.As I feel that alone won\'t help the situation. Because that doesn\'t make things secure as identifying the attack itself is a strenous task. And there are various types of attacks that can happen.And secondly there are too many anonymous procedures that exist for swiping away the entire information in a computer. The threats can be present in hardware and software. The entire information can be swiped away with the click of a single mouse.And with the concept of Internet of Things,direct integration of the physical world into computer based systems becomes easy as cyber attacks are on the verge of increasingly becoming physical rather than virtual. .

1. Essay Questions
You are not allowed to include direct quotes from any source in your answers to the essay
questions. Everything you submit must be in your own words.
(10 points) Question 2. You are in charge of IT for an electric utility. The CEO of the company
suggests disconnecting the company's computer network from the internet so that you don't
have to worry about all of that “cybersecurity stuff―. Describe two reasons why you would
still have to worry about all of that cybersecurity stuff.
(your answer to this question should be 100-200 words )
Solution
Today the CEO of our company suggested disconnecting the company's network from the
internet because of the constant worries of the cybersecurity stuff. As it affect the financial
position of the company very badly.In worst cases the company might even collapse.These all
the companies around the globe are being targeted and attacked by hackers.This has become a
major issue of concern for every standard company.
Today,inspite of our CEO suggesting the disconnection of network,there is no satisfaction.As I
feel that alone won't help the situation. Because that doesn't make things secure as identifying
the attack itself is a strenous task. And there are various types of attacks that can happen.And
secondly there are too many anonymous procedures that exist for swiping away the entire
information in a computer. The threats can be present in hardware and software. The entire
information can be swiped away with the click of a single mouse.And with the concept of
Internet of Things,direct integration of the physical world into computer based systems becomes
easy as cyber attacks are on the verge of increasingly becoming physical rather than virtual.