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In this age of technological dawn it is important to understand that unless an individual or an organization, put more effort to catch up with the fast-moving wave, it may not be able to cope. Technology has greatly advanced and in almost every aspect of life, IT has crossed. It is so demanding to go IT in almost all perspective. A clear understanding of the direction of the technology will place an organization in a position which will help in discovering what could be the greatest reservoirs for the development. Also with the mighty wind of the technological growth so it comes with the great responsibility of fighting against the assailing threats that accompany the endeavor. There are so many factors that are connected with the security of the technology. The leaders and administrators must be well versed with each and every issue that may crop up with aim of interfering with the system.

 There must be a thorough evaluation process that must regularly go on to keep watch over the intruders which may find a way in through various weak points contributed by the users or through the hijacking of the already established systems by the hackers. There are myriads of technological inventions which have been made and each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. Each organization assumes one that best suits itself and conducted the necessary research before assuming it. The technologies have been tailored to meet the different needs of the clients on the ground. There are loopholes that are in each of them and this renders them very insecure unless probable measures are taken into action. Gigantic Corporation Company is one of the institutions which have ventured on the digital move and being that it is a customer based organization, it must ensure to provide the latest information to the clients in the most encouraging manner, Yao,  Zhao,  Hu  & Abdelzaher  (2018). The services that the customers always have needed are majorly localized within the restricted technology. But the rise of the digital era has really changed the manner in which things are done and never again will things be the same. The applications and the utilities that are done have the assurance of ensuring that the customer can interact with the application or the technology wherever he or she is without physically moving to the station where the service provider is located. This organization has in the recent past decided to launch an application that helps the client to be able to keep track of their sales. Once they make transactions, Garcia, C. G., Garcia-Diaz, Garcia-Bustelo & Lovelle (2018) they can view what is the trends that attend their work. This is actually an online sale app which can allow them to sell, monitor, advertise and interact with the other customers they could be having outside their area of operation.

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This technology has really made things easier for the clients and they have achieved this the customers have expressed great satisfaction in the manner they are enjoying the services. Through the use of one wave of technology that helps in facilitating this, the Internet of Things it becomes easier. The main gist of this assessment report by the author is to ensure that the relationship that exists between the use of this technology and the organization have been expounded. Through the following sections, the various elements of the Internet of things are to be discussed, the risk factors towards the vulnerability and exposure to attack from the space form the backbone of the paper. A thorough assessment of these risk areas and who is responsible for the same and how they can be reversed will also constitute the work.

Security and privacy issues are the most important concepts in any technological systems or applications, Kaushik (2018). They should be carefully guarded against anything that may tend to infiltrate to them and jeopardize the clients confidential, Kaushik, (2018). In this particular wing of technological advancement, there are several channels that are used by the malicious persons to get into the systems and bring adverse technical implications. These are viewed as the potential causative agents responsible for the multiple attacks that happen, Choudhary & Kesswani (2018)

The networking capability that helps the applications in every part of the world to communicate here and there is necessary to ensure that the packets flow as required. Whenever there is leakage in the network and the malicious agents hijack the normal frequencies of the waves, they tend to find an access illegally to the operational applications. In this case, connectivity possesses challenge and it may be now termed as a threat towards the safety of the application, Manickam (2018). In some cases, those who have been trained and works with the applications; majorly the administrators and the technologists are so much acquainted with the operations of the applications. In many cases that have been reported in the recent past, some of this good renown and trusted custodians can act a part in ensuring insecurity of these applications are found. In the event there is any disagreement that happens between them, they may tend to collaborate and bring the whole system down or a section of it, Celebucki, Lin & Graham (2018) here a clear-cut information about the custodians can be seen as a threat if not carefully considered.

As a matter of fact, the hackers are very intelligent in the way they perform their attacks on isolated applications. Their sophisticated tools they employ in monitoring the user’s end and in this they calculate so much in the manner they shall be able to find their way into the situation, Conti, Dehghantanha, Franke & Watson (2018). This they successfully do by locating the gadgets that the users are using and through them, they are able to find their way into the application and alter their operations.  Hence the Internet of Things tools is potential threats towards the security of the applications.

The clients who are often interacting with the applications could also be one of those factors which may contribute towards the insecurity that often meet the systems. The ignorance that ranges in the lives of many tends to prove a great threat to the system, Yaseen, Aldwairi, Jararweh, Al-Ayyoub & Gupta (2018). When they confirm their credentials to the sites which are controversial they expose the applications to the attacks. Also, usage of vulnerable passcodes makes the attackers have an advantage through the brute force to find the right password. The obvious names, dates and events often act as a threat towards the attack. These form the foundation of all the threats that could be affecting any technology company and both the members form an internal organization and the external have their part in ensuring that these effects are felt within the systems. When these things happen they really hit back on the organization. When the attack targets and successfully finds the most crucial data of the organization, a massive loss I really incurred which may not be reversed. The loss of the client’s information is the greatest tragedy that can meet any institution ever. The applications in the framework of the Internet of Things must be protected against all the loopholes that may be liable to the challenge, Khalili, Naghizadeh & Liu (2018). As a technologist intermediate, I would wish to recommend that there must be proper education that must be done to help the users as well as the administrators to be apprehensive to understand all the probable avenues. They should be ready to avoid any instance that may bring any distortion to the company. In technology, there are so many risks that attend any adventure which put the applications at a great incidence of alterations.

Gigantic Corporation intends to come up with an online sales application to help the clients get to conduct their enterprise elsewhere in the world. This exposure already possesses a challenge to the application as it means that accessibility becomes easier for the attackers. The use of cell phone to confirm messages and this renders the device vulnerable to attacks. It is risky in that the user devices and gadget exposes them to the malicious fellows who are responsible for the exploitation, Xu, Chen, Liu & Shen (2018).  What the hackers do is actually monitoring the gadgets where they are and provided they can be able to get a connection with them, they can access the data and the transactions that may be taking place therein.

There is a combination of many factors that render the network to be vulnerable which the scientific world has proclaimed very serious. The networking connections between applications and the systems provide a pathway wherein packets find their opportunity. Weak network schemes present a very favorable. They are able to intercept and impersonate in diverting the real and normal request. They can feed the network with the fake request and hence get unauthorized information from the clients which are not as per the policies. Also through the weakly designed databases, the attackers who have had an act of interfering with the normal organization of the databases can get in touch and modify the fields and the organization of the data from the normal. Once an attack has been done on the database, then the company incurs the highest nature of loss possible. There are some very special attacks that majorly target the applications designed to work through a network connection. These attacks are really geared towards the destruction of the applications.

This is one of the strategies that is used by the attacker to guess the password of the application. They try many ways through the events, common names and other pronounced words in the world today, Wang, Ming, Chen, Zhang, & Wang (2018). Through this many of the weak passwords are found and exploited by the attackers. And many accounts have been affected through this aspect that is to prevent.

This type of an attack involves network connection in which the attacker through the network, provides the end user with a lot of unauthorized requests which burden the mainstream network and as a result of that bring a congestion and the resources that the user has requested do not get to be found by him, Biron, Dey & Pisu (2018). This kind of attack is so serious in applications and servers.

A virus is actually a code or a snippet programmed by the attacker that is intended to alter the normal functioning of the entire system. The applications are prone to attack by myriads of virus that are floating within the network designed to alter the functionality of the applications, Shen, Gong & Bao (2018). This manner of attack is the most prevalent in the world of the Internet of things.

It is therefore recommended that a special strategy that is should be able to overview the progress of the applications and the servers that are in charge of hosting the application in Gigantic Corporation must be done, Alhawari, Jarrah & Hadi (2018). It should assess the risk, the level and how it can be mitigated.

It is a serious concern that the organization is at great risk of being affected by the risk issues outlined above. There must be very stringent measures which must be put in place to ensure that in the event of the arrival of the problem of attack; there are counteractions that revert the same. There must be well-stipulated mechanisms to deal with the attacks that may be realized and also close all the avenues possible in bringing the crisis, Freyberger, He, Akhawe, Mazurek, & Mittal (2018). This part is used in the analysis of the different ways that can be used in preventing an attack on the Internet of Things platform in the current age of time.

The different attacks styles mean that there must be specific measures which fitly are able to counter the very attacks at their roots, Hong, Levy, Riliskis & Levis (2018). One of the strategies that the attacker uses is spoofing which intercepts the system form a network perspective. Through this, he is able to steal into the crucial information and mark the changing patterns of the application. In the design and creation of the application in place, the programmer must include the adjustment of the normal running of the cycles in the application so that the hacker does not get to understand the real functionality that lies at the foundation of the application. Encryption of the key aspects of the program code renders them to be malicious fellow powerless. 

He cannot guess what is really happening in most cases some of the IoT applications are so vulnerable in that an attack can just appear and unnoticed. The walls and barriers to the inner ramifications are left bare. That is the reason why the hackers find a direct entry into the application and alter the normal working. In this generation, the administrators have noticed some of these loopholes and as a result of this, the application of firewall that screens any foreign packet that comes into the application has made things easier, Kataoka, Gangwar & Podili (2018). This measure ensures that nothing that is not in accordance with the policies of the application can be permitted to access any resource. All the requests are entirely rejected

In this manner of attacks, the administrator must be very keen to be able to discern the incoming threats from afar. There should proper scrutinize all the logs that may be signed into the systems in order that there should be clear accountability. This is very necessary to allow surveillance and detection of any potential threat that may be around the premises, Al-Muhtadi, Qiang, Saleem, AlMusallam & Rodrigues (2018). Each and every file in the application must be assessed of who has logged in and what time. Activity logs and system logs must be included as part of detection and avoidance of any risks that may be included. The servers that host the applications must be updated regularly to be informed of what is transpiring in the entire system. In case there are already attacks that have been done to the applications, it is very necessary to come up with means of ensuring that recovery of each and every lost data has been done. The harm that has been done to the systems must be reversed before other subsequent attacks can follow suit. It is therefore imperative for any technological organization to organize serious strategies which can help salvage in case of any loss incurrence of such sad instances of damage and corruption by the attackers.

Most of the attacks that affect the applications and systems in form of the Internet of Things emanate from ignorance of the users. Users who naïve on the risky issues that may affect their esteemed application may find themselves as victims of the circumstances. This demands education of the common end users on how they can try to avoid the incidences of the attacks by teaching them how they can operate their machinery and how they interact online. They must be taught how to use a complex password which cannot be easily guessed by the hackers, Swain, Pattanayak & Pati (2018). Hackers take advantage of weak passcodes to find entry into the user’s accounts and thereafter steal out their confidential information which they use against them in the crimes.  When they use the strong password they are able to evade the so often incurred problem. They should also be educated on the issue of not submitting their credentials to unknown sites which keeps on popping up enticing messages. This information captivates the user and robs him or her of the privacy of their accounts. The applications are hacked and much trouble comes in.

The companies that are engaged in the use of IOT must ensure that necessary strategies are put in place to ensure all the mechanisms that can be ventured on concerning how they can get back their data if lost are sanctioned, Gupta,  Sabitha,  Choudhury  & Bansal (2018). The backing up of data in some safe servers far from the main server is a great step that can help in restoration. In the technology plan that the company may have, there should be a well-enumerated manner in which such actions can be done. The technologists must be apt to ensure that all the activities concerning backs are done on the real-time basis because the attack can occur at any period even when there is the prospect of a good future. On this point still, resources that are needed to back up and monitor any eventuality that may be on the way must be given to those who are concerned. All these activities will ensure that the organization will not lose any particular data that they have. It safely keeps and maintains a record of each and every transaction as it is. Whenever an attack has happened, it is easier to restore and maintain the normal functioning of the applications and the systems.Some of the applications formed through the technology are so weak in that proper validation has not been done especially in the access privileges.

There should be levels of privileges that should be assigned to each and category of the use. Each and every user should not just access the areas in which he or she should not have. Level of privileges in a system will ensure that not anyone can penetrate without restraint into the system. User passcode authentication style helps in identifying whether the person logged into the application. This throws away all the doubts that may be the fears of the administrators.

As a technologist’s mediator of these facets, in this organization, I would highly recommend these strategies to be explored for the intent of achieving the main objectives of the corporation. All these have a great bearing on the welfare of the application created for the users and the website in general.

As an expert in the field of technology well aware of the probable dangers that may actually attend the organization; stringent measures must be put in place to counter all the dangers possible. For the Gigantic Corporation to be safe from all these risks that most of the technical organizations have borne the following are the recommendations that I would suggest to be implemented to secure the application and the other coordinated ICT services related.

The advantage that the attackers take when hacking IOT devices is that most of them tend to be in connection almost at all times. This gives them an opportunity to capitalize on each and every means they can have to ensure that they have succeeded in getting into the gadgets and alter the normal operations. It is therefore recommended that these devices can be online only when it is necessary and other times it should be offline. The use of dynamic passwords which are diverse one to another helps in ensuring that if the malicious fellow succeeds to infiltrate most of them will be sabotaged. The use of these different passcode maintains the integrity of these devices.  It is imperative for all the employees and the clients connected with the organization to really put that in practice.

For proper and secure operations within the organization, the corporation should be able to set up proper rules and guidelines that that will be for some good time. Within this framework, the admins of the servers and the applications, as well as the network setups, must be very vigilant in tracking down all the transactions that run between the devices. Monitoring tools should be put in place to discern any sign of the attack from. Because the hackers have very sophisticated mechanisms to search and incorporate into the end users’ viruses and other malware, a budget on the necessary surveillance must be on the record by the organization to ensure safety at all times. These monitory machines should be tested regularly until they shall be proved to be trusted to make the company contented. All this is a matter of time, there should be a proper plan for implementing this very fundamental aspect in the gigantic corporation.

The application from the corporation on sale to help the clients sell their products may be so prone to the attack because of some few underlying issues. In most of the companies that are engaged in the development of shareable applications ignore to have the protocols which regulate any spill over to other aspects of insecurity. It is assumed and the hackers take advantage and they are able to access the critical privileges that the customers could be enjoying and jeopardize all the important components. It is recommended to the Gigantic organization’ coders to overview the security locks that the app has and write and read protect from the unauthorized individuals to protect the common clients from losing property and confidential information.

Finally, regular education of the employees and the clients should be rolled up to ensure that they are aware of the hanging crisis that may pose great threats to their personal and confidential data and expose them to the ruthless crimes that prevail in the world now.

Conclusion

The corporation is very interested in designing many applications in the line of the Internet of Things which may really revolutionize the functional reputation of the company. As it stands now, the designing and launching of the online sales app have really excited a lot of hope for the clients and the organization at large. Through this application; the publicity of the company and the name has gone far and wide in ensuring that its marketability is great. The clients have appreciated the upgrading of the services they have been receiving and they can now enjoy distance merchandising with their own clients of their products they have. Through the app, they can now be able to reach as many people as possible which were not the issue with the website management portal that was localized. They never had the one to one administration of the outworking of the transactions that were taking place before. With the use of the Internet of Things, the network now becomes expansive and they can have a wide market of operation throughout where the facility can find an access. They can track all the activities going on and the followers that like what they promote through the application. There are actually so many advantages that the development of the new application has had and this is very interesting to note. Contrary to all that has been spoken good about the application, the technology used has some shortcomings which trickle down to the application itself.

 The application is vulnerable to two major aspects. The details of the clients and the customers are not so much private. From the application control centres, the administrators are able to track all that is happening everywhere without the owner’s credibility. This robs the user the confidence that he has had. Another issue with the internet of things is that the intruders or the hackers can have an access to the application and interfere with the normal function. Also once they get in there they are able to divert the necessary resources and hide them from the customers. The users also can submit their private credentials which can be used to steal their personal information and perform crimes which can be reverted back to them. Once the hackers have the access, the user becomes vulnerable. Necessary measures should be put in place to counter the effect of hacking and interacting with the customer’s information. The coding done on the application should be encrypted, the application of only strong password should be done to ensure security.

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