Synthesizing Findings Of Empirical And Business Research On Network Security Attacks In An Essay.

Using the NCU library, do some research in technology and in the area of your specialization. Find 10 articles that involve some form of empirical research from the past 5 years. This could involve quantitative or qualitative methods. If your specialization is in computer science, research methods could include algorithms, simulations, etc. The key is that there is some sort of problem, some sort of testing or data collected, and results that are analyzed and presented. In addition, find 10 more articles that involve business journals and practical application of technology (Hint: Harvard Business Review is one example) also from the past 5 years. 

Write a report synthesizing your findings. Be sure to address the following:

1. Identify the type of research is out there. Address this question from both an academic (theory) and business (practice) viewpoint.

2. Identify 3 areas of interest to you from a theoretical standpoint.

3. Describe the key constructs or variables are used in these articles

4. Identify how the business articles demonstrate visionary leadership.

5. Discuss any theories or application for the integration of new technologies. 

Identification of Type of Research

From the academic viewpoint, the research is based on computer research where the selected research topic is network security attacks. This is an empirical research, is a way to gain knowledge by means of direct as well as indirect observation. This research is analyzed both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Wireless sensor network is a growing advanced technology and there are possibility of security attacks as the network is prone to malicious users. Security is fundamental requirements of the networks, therefore this paper is focused on the security attacks in the network (Anwar et al., 2014). Security attacks are major concern for the network due to its physical accessibility of the sensor and using of minimal capacity into the network. Reddy and Sreenivasulu (2016) stated that availability into the network ensures that the network services are feasible even into denial of the service attacks. Authenticity is required for the network as adversary is easier to inject the messages. Authenticity of data is required to identify the communicational nodes.

From the business viewpoint, it is a business research which is involved to acquire of information as well as knowledge for the professional as well as commercial purposes. It determines opportunities for the business organization. The network is developed due to new level of IT environments, networking, administration of the information, security as well as social variables. Hajli and Lin (2016) argued that capabilities of the software defined networking is easier to detect as well as react to the security attacks. The research is basically network based where identification of the security issues are analyzed. The existing system has lack of accuracy as well as faster while data aggregation that decreases performance of errors. In selected articles, the researcher is focused to analyse reasons why security attacks are becoming prevalent into the cloud computing and wireless sensor network (Chang, Shen, & Liu ¸2016). This paper is based on exploring current technologies which are related to security attacks and future research are beneficial to the issues. Into the smart cities, security of the network is a key issue. Wireless security network components are not included of mutable attributes, therefore the security components are not defend the ongoing attacks.

Based on the empirical research on selected research topic, the three areas of interest from the theoretical standpoint are:

• Software defined networking
• Cloud system and network
• Network security or cyber security

Software defined networking (SDN): It is such an architecture which aims to make network agile in addition to flexible. The goal of this network is to make improvement over network control by enabling the enterprises to respond to the business requirement changes. The network devices are made to take of traffic decisions based on configurations of the routing tables (Liu et al., 2016).

Cloud system and network: It is such a computer network which is provided of interconnectivity among the cloud based applications as well as network. It is a term which is used to describe access to the networking resources from the centralized third party providers. Therefore, the cloud network is such a network which is existed in the infrastructure of cloud based server (Rezvani et al., 2015).

Identification of Three Areas of Interest from Theoretical Standpoint

Network security: It is a body of technologies which is used to protect the network, computers and data from the network attacks or any type of unauthorized access. Network security is enabled to ensure that security of the assets is included of network traffic such as software as well as hardware technologies. Access to this network is managed through network security which can target wide range of the threats from the entering into the network (Xu, Yu, & Yang, 2017).

Based the business research on selected research topic, the three areas of interest from the theoretical standpoint are:

• Cloud security
• Cyber security
• Real time system

Cloud security: Security is a main concern for that type of network as through use of cloud computing, various personal and confidential information are shared and transferred through it (Jain & Pal, 2017). There are chances of loss and stolen of those data which would hamper the business operations.

Cyber security: The cyber security is such a process which take of physical as well as software measures for protection of the cyber infrastructure from any unauthorized access, destruction and improper disclosure (Soomro, Shah, & Ahmed, 2016). It helps to create of secured platform for the users and computers to perform critical functions into secured IT environments.

Real time system: It is such an operating system which is intended to aid real time applications to course the data as it comes (Hajli et al., 2017). The requirements of processing time is being measured in tenths of smaller increases of the time.

Into the selected empirical research articles, there are higher quality of quantitative research data which are required to bring of theory, constructs as well as variables. Constructs in this paper are related to theories on network security (Zaini et al., 2016). The constructs are consisted of number of variables when creating of theoretical model. The main objective into the network security is to avert the negative consequences as well as valence behaviour is consequences of the negative outcomes. There are main four key constructs which can influence the network security attacks such as security effectiveness, system auditing, and clarity in security policies as well as determine the security activities. As in most of the organizations, security is a main concern, therefore proper security measures are to be taken (Chelli, 2015). Based on the four constructs, the dependent variable is security effectiveness and independent variables are system auditing, and clarity in security policies as well as determine the security activities (Reddy & Sreenivasulu, 2016). Those are identified to perform a theoretical framework of the selected research topic.

Into the business articles, the constructs are customer loyalty towards security, customer satisfaction and security review. Chari (2015) stated that perceived severity is a factor to influence the variables which affect the network security behaviour. The paper is investigating impact of two of the software authenticated encryption security constructs. The security constructs which are examined in the paper are affecting average quantity of capacities up to three hops. When a client organization is sharing of any confidential information with other organization, therefore it is the first responsibility of the organization to keep the client information secured over the network and in cloud computing (Yang & Wen, 2017). The dependent variable is security review and independent variables are customer loyalty towards security and customer satisfaction.

Description of Key Constructs and Variables Used in the Articles

Among the selected ten business articles, there are some articles which demonstrate the leadership. The wireless sensor networks are deployed into the security critical applications. Due to internet constraints, there are different security attacks which affects the data collection (Xu, Yu, & Yang, 2017). In order to overcome with this challenge, active detection based security is used. The distribution of detection routes in active trust scheme is used to achieve desired security measures of the wireless sensor network. WSN is emerging as one of the technologies for the future because of wide range of the applications in the security domains (Liu et al., 2016). WSN is one of most challenging research domains of the time. It has potential to deploy in wide mission of the critical applications. Development as well as effective mechanisms are used to address the system design.

Because of wireless medium which is broadcasted into the nature, the packets are damaged because of errors into the channels and also conflicts. The examination is fundamentally arrange based where identification of the security issues which are dissected (Porter & Heppelmann, 2014). The current framework has absence of exactness and also quicker while information accumulation that reductions execution of mistakes. In chose articles, the researcher is engaged to dissect reasons why security assaults are getting to be predominant into the distributed computing and remote sensor arrange. It is required to hide the messages from the positive attacker in addition to this, it is considered as most important issue into the network security (AlHogail, 2015). Sensor identifies are encrypted to protect against the traffic attack.  

In order to address the security issues into wireless security network, cryptography is used as well as its applicability. For secured transmission of the information over the sensor networks, various cryptographic techniques are being used such as asymmetric key cipher and symmetric key cipher. Security of the asymmetric cryptography is based on difficulties of the mathematical issues (Zaini et al., 2016). The possibility of the symmetric cryptography is to stack secret data in the sensor hubs before their organization in the system. This secret data might be simply the secret key or helper data that causes the sensor hubs to infer the real secret key. With this secret key, hubs can safely discuss. The principle inconvenience of this arrangement is that trading off one hub (access to the pre-stacked key) may prompt compromise the whole system (Anwar et al., 2014). To conquer this restriction, a few specialists propose plans that build up pairwise keys as opposed to an interesting worldwide key.

Open key cryptosystems are thought to be too substantial to use in WSNs (Porter & Heppelmann, 2014). In any case, late works demonstrate successful execution cases of open key cryptography in constrained sensors devices. The remote sensor frameworks continue to create and end up being by and large used in various mission-essential applications. Along these lines, the necessity for security becomes critical Larson and Chang (2015). In any case, the remote sensor organize encounters various impediments, for instance, confined imperativeness, processing capability, in addition limit restrict, and moreover conflicting correspondence in addition unattended errand.

Identification of Visionary Leadership in Business Articles

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Chelli, K. (2015, July). Security issues in wireless sensor networks: Attacks and countermeasures. In Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering (Vol. 1, pp. 1-3).

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