Effet du piratage sur l'économie des pays

Name: Oumaima Asmama

ID: 66 620

Formal Outline

Date: 04/18/2017

                                        FORMAL OUTLINE

                        Cyber warfare effect on the world’s economy

1. Introduction

Since cyberspace has become the fifth domain of war. Nations, countries, and communities ought to know the dangers that levitate in it. In fact, cyberattacks have become a crucial weapon to every country. Leaders of all governments deserve the right to know how bad a cyberattack can affect their country.

Thesis:  Cyberattacks that aim to target databases of governments as well as  big corporations can cause dire damage to the attacked nation’s economy.

1. Body

Topic Sentence 1:  

Cyberattacks that steal intellectual property can be the cause of the loss of billions of dollars.

Support 1.        Nortel Firm Scandal

Support 2. Las Vegas Sands Corp

Topic Sentence 2:

The hacking of governmental computers could cause an incline in unemployment, resulting in billions of dollars wiped out.

Support 1. Incident of governmental hacking that occurred on July, 2015 causing the loss of important personal data, with an aftermath taking the form of a job unemployment rate in an increasing state.

Support 2. Hacking that occurred between Ukraine and Russia, aiming at governmental databases has been reflected in the loss of many territorial properties.

Topic Sentence 3:

Cyber attacks that mainly affect a nation’s economy, can take years to recover from, and may be the main cause of an international financial crisis.

        Support 1. Nortel Firm did not recover from its scandal since it had to cancel its business.

        Support 2. Researchers suppose that runaway algorithms in firms and governments threaten the global financial stability, and may results in a crisis like the one that happened in 2008.

        Concluding paragraph

        Because cyber-attacks can cause a dire damage to the attacked nation’s economy, each nation should take cybersecurity seriously. In fact, those cyber-attacks don’t only have consequences on the economy, but they also threaten the security and privacy of an important number of individuals.

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