3.4 IMPACT OF INTERNET ON ORGANISATIONS

Question 1

WHAT ARE POSITIVE IMPACTS?

3 w/ explanation

Answer 1

• Improved social communication - using email, imessage, social media. Interact with customaers and employees easily, publish live information online.
• Access to global markets and workforce - can advertise and sell to international customers. Work 24/7. Avoid postal charges. Communicate easier. Can sell products online without creating physical packaging.
• Changes in the way information is managed and used - usage of big data to understand customer behaviour

Question 2

WHAT ARE NEGATIVE IMPACTS?

Answer 2

• Security issues - data is more vulnerable. Storing data on another company’s server allows employees to transfer a copy of the organisation’s data to home via email. Providing remote access to data stored in the organisation’s building like VPN means data is more vulnerable to being accessed by unauthorised user.
• Risk of hacking
• Greater competition - organisations must compete in global scales.

Question 3

HOW CAN THERE BE RISKS OF HACKING?

Answer 3

1. Authorised users revealed their login details
2. Unauthorised user intercepting data
3. Unauthorised user may hack into organisation’s system

Question 4

HOW CAN AUTHORISED USERS REVEAL THEIR LOGIN DETAILS?

Answer 4

• Losing paper copies of login details
• Saving login details on a cumputer they lose
• Being pressured to reveal details
• Easy password

Question 5

HOW CAN AN UNAUTHORISED USER INTERCEPT DATA?

Prevent this by encryption

Answer 5

• When it is transferred over the internet from the organaisation to employee’s computer.
• When transferred in employee’s LAN after being transferred via internet.

Question 6

HOW CAN AN ORGANISATION PREVENT HACKING INTO THEIR SYSTEM?

Answer 6

Can use firewalls to prevent this and intrusion detection system.