week 3 W3DQ Week 3 Discussion Question Discuss why it is more effective and less expensive to prevent security breach than to fix one after an attack. Your initial response is due by Thursday 11:59PM.

Access control has been quite a challenge to organizations, businesses, and individuals' information and data. Prevention of the access breach is the most effective way of solving the access control issues. It is more cost-effective than fixing an attack disaster, which might be more costly (Westland, 2020).

Prevention is natural; for quite some reasons, prevention will reduce the case of data loss. When systems are well-protected and designed to avoid adversaries' access, it means that data will be protected and lost. Unlike when an attack occurs, data will probably be lost or accessed before a fix is wholly applied. Therefore, prevention will not only save systems from the breach but also protect confidential information. Prevention is also vital as it reduces the time wastages trying to negotiate back or take back control of breached systems. When the IT security team can protect the systems, they will have all the time to do security controls that are more effective and less expensive than wait for an attack then correspond, which might take a lot of energy and time trying to figure out ways to control them. Therefore, preferences become less comfortable than waiting to rebuild an attacked system (Furdek & Natalino, 2020).

Preventing a security breach is less expensive also in terms of auditing, the IT support team from audit firm have an easier time doing the system scan when they are no threats and identify flaws and vulnerabilities than when a disaster occurs. When there is an attack, scanning through the system becomes a challenge since the attackers will change the settings, and the systems become very hard to navigate through. Prevention, therefore, is the best way to solving system breach (Westland, 2020).

References

Furdek, M., & Natalino, C. (2020, March). Machine Learning for Optical Network Security Management. In 2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) (pp. 1-3). IEEE.

Westland, J. C. (2020). The information content of Sarbanes-Oxley in predicting security breaches. Computers & Security, 90, 101687.