The World Wide Web concept originated with Tim Berners-Lee at the Conseil Europeene pour la Recherche Nucleaire or CERN in Geneva. The main idea was to create a hyper-text languagethat took advantage of the Internet. The development of the Mosaic web browser at the National Center for Super-computing Application (NCSA) in the early 1990’s provided a simple user interface for the web.
With time, Web browsers have become the standard user interfaces for most computer applications. Since the development of Web 2.0 concept, that mainly supports the data integration from many separate entities on the Internet, have made it very easy for users to access data much easier.
Just like any other company, Riordan Manufacturing should also conduct an extensive research of its abilities to be successful in the exceedingly challenging environment of the Web. In order to be successful for any company, a secure web presence is a must these days. Millions of people search the internet for services and if you don’t have any presence or not adequate presence on the web, then the company may lose out on a great opportunity of doing business online. Not only having a great website is s must these days, but having a secure web presence where people feel comfortable when they visit the site, is something that majority of current and future customers expect. Riordan Manufacturing is also a global company that employees over 500 employees world wide that produces plastic parts that are used in different facilities around the world.
Technically speaking, the main probability is that Riordan’s security threat is not from their aging servers, poor physical security or aged workstations, but mainly from their own employees. Many of their employees, without realizing have been open to social engineering, malware and phishing. A study was done not too long ago by (Swabey, 2013) found that the industry considers their employees to be the greatest IT security threat rather than threat from the outside. More thank 50% of the businesses consider their own employees as the biggest threat. In order to keep Riodan’s interest safe, a properly configured firewall system must be installed as the first line of defense. Since their web is open to everything outside of the organizations, employees can access web-based emails, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. A firewall should be installed in order to flag websites that are not work related to be blocked from accessing. When employees have access to these types of sites from their organizations, it opens them up to many external threats that can be easily fixed with firewalls. No security is 100%, as there will always be loopholes that hackers can find, but one should do everything in their powers to make sure their site or network is secured. Additional security measures that Riordan should take are email monitoring in order to prevent