Explain How Reputation And Trust Are Key Components In The Cybersecurity World

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Critical Thinking Introduction Reputation and trust are key components in the cybersecurity world. If either of those are compromised and/or lost, then that company’s bottom line (and even perhaps longtime viability) would be negatively affected. Maintaining not just the appearance of honesty and integrity, but also actually being honest and acting with integrity are absolutely crucial to any successful cybersecurity firm. Acting in an unscrupulous manner or cutting corners, or being dishonest (even just a little) is a sure way to destroy a cybersecurity firm’s reputation. No matter how successful a cybersecurity company is, if doubts about its trustworthiness start to appear that can ultimately affect its future. Take Kaspersky Labs as a current …show more content…

And how would that affect their reputation? Conversely, what would the consequences be for their reputation if they did disclose the information? There is that issue of trust where other firms would be wary of using the services of CyberTech in the future if they cannot trust that whatever might be discovered would not be divulged. Conclusions and Recommendations Like Caesar’s wife, a successful cybersecurity firm needs to be above suspicion in order to maintain credibility and success. Reputation and trust are key components in the cybersecurity world. If either of those is compromised and/or lost, then that company’s bottom line (and even perhaps longtime viability) would be negatively affected. No matter how successful a cybersecurity company is, if doubts about its trustworthiness start to appear, and grow, and remain unchallenged that can ultimately affect its future. There really is no effective way to project and maintain transparency regarding what may be discovered during a cybersecurity investigation into activities at Anomalous that might have a bearing on the OPM data breach. There is also an obligation to the client (Anomalous) that would presumably preclude CyberTech from revealing any such information to the plaintiffs in the OPM data breach