Abstract

This research mainly focuses on identifying most emerging e-threats that have been evolved by the date and distinguishes the effects they produce within the infected organizations. The research is conducted to distinguish various factors that play roles in data security requirements and data security approaches. The research also focuses on the study of various security models adopted by various private commercial organizations and governmental organizations that operate on sensitive/critical information in Nepal. The study was conducted using survey questionnaire and direct interview as a method of data collection and mixed research method as a research paradigm. This analysis is based on defined conceptual framework and policies which describes and classifies the techniques and processes that has to undergo within an organization in order to secure data and application from threats in organizations. The study highlighted some of the areas which could be vulnerable to the organization’s operations such as not having a proper information technology policy. The data security model suggested in this report recommends different phases and tasks that need to be performed in order to get increase the performance of the data security model as well as optimize the data security cost.

Keywords Malicious software; Encryption;Authentication;Data protection technologies;Data classification;Malware;Data security models