About this Assignment Cybersecurity refers to the protection of sensitive information, specifically that which is stored or accessed via the Internet. It is critical to understand types of cyber vulnerabilities and how to approach the prevention and mitigation of such risk. For this final assignment, you will write a 1,500-2,000 word research paper about cybersecurity risk analysis. It should focus on how to identify potential vulnerabilities in modern organizations and how to create a strategic plan to analyze and control risk using governance and policy practices, management models and contingency planning. Should security beaches happen, you should be able to outline effective incident response execution.

Scenario Store My Bits International (SMBI) is a well-known cloud data storage company of which you are the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Recently, a phishing scheme was released that introduced multiple viruses into your environment. After spending over $2 million eradicating these threats, the CEO demands that a full cybersecurity analysis be performed and a strategic plan be drafted to reduce the company's exposure to breaches. As part of the plan, he wants to know how vulnerabilities will be identified, how incidents will be responded to and what contingencies will need to be in place. Your job is to come up with the plan to address these issues. Formatting & Sources Please write your paper in the MLA format. You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use 3 other sources and cite them using the MLA format. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a security journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in MLA (including the lesson title and instructor's name). Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question. Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Oxford Academic Journal of Cybersecurity. You may use sources like JSTOR or Google Scholar to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)