Dracula as Social Fusion - Literature Essay Samples

In periods of cultural insecurity, when there are fears of regression and degeneration, the longing for strict border controls around the definition of gender, as well as race, class, and nationality, becomes especially intense. If the different races can be kept in their places, if the various classes can be held in their proper districts of the city, and if men and women can be fixed in their separate spheres, many hope, apocalypse can be prevented and we can preserve a comforting sense of identity and permanence in the face of that relentless specter of millennial change. (Showalter 4)In the first chapter of her book Sexual Anarachy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Sià ¨cle, Elaine Showalter outlines the social circumstances in the western world as the year 1900 approached. She asserts that the fin-de-sià ¨cle mentality, a so-called endism, aggravated battles of race and class, leading to ferocious backlash by proponents of the status quo. Fearing that the coming end of the cen tury signified the last step in a gradual process of de-civilization which blurred demarcations between social castes, these people clamored for a return to a more ordered society. Gender roles were to be firmly established, classes and races hierarchically separated.Although often assumed to be but a simple horror novel, Bram Stokers Dracula, written during this period, can be read as a representation of this struggle between the heroic forces of order and the evil entities that hope to subvert it. To use Noel Carrolls term, Dracula is a fusion monster, a creature that transgresses categorical distinctions (Carroll 43). Literally, he inspires fear to all because he is a combination of life and death, but, more profoundly for the novels Victorian audience, because he clouds boundaries between the genders and between the East and West. To oppose him, Stoker offers five men Jonathan Harker, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, John Seward, and Abraham Van Helsing all of whom subscribe t o the chivalrous ideal of masculinity, and one woman Mina Harker who embodies the purity of the Victorian woman. These six protagonists quest to destroy Dracula obviously works on a literal level; they fear for their and others lives. More importantly, though, their pursuit and eradication of the vampire represents a move away from the social fusion embodied by Dracula, towards a well-ordered society.As the twentieth century approached, Patrick Brantlinger asserts in his Rule of Darkness, the British became more and more concerned with the state of their society, no longer viewing the triumphs of imperialism as unmitigated successes. He writes, after the mid-Victorian years the British found it increasingly difficult to think of themselves as inevitably progressive; they began worrying instead about the degeneration of their institutions, their culture, their racial stock' (Brantlinger 230). The most powerful nation of the nineteenth century, England saw in herself reflections of the collapses of great empires of the past, such as the Romans and Greeks. Previously, the countrys imperialist attitude and activity had functioned as a partial substitute for. . .declining faith in Britains future (Brantlinger 228), but when society seemed to continue its disintegration, imperialist pride rapidly became fear of the domestic effect of foreign, lesser influences. Brantlinger suggests that this trepidation manifested itself in the literature of the age:The three principal themes of imperial Gothic are individual regression or going native; an invasion of civilization by the forces of barbarism or demonism; and the diminution of opportunities for adventure and heroism in the modern world. (Brantlinger 230)Indeed, Dracula can be read as a tale of the second type, where the commercial imperialism of Jonathan Harkers firm provides an opening for the Counts entrance into and eventual destruction of British society. In his description of Harkers journey into Transylvania, Stoker foreshadows the racial conflict to come between the Eastern Dracula and the Western protagonists. First, through the writings of Harker Stokers representative of the Westerner encountering the East he contrasts the rampant superstition of the East with the scientific disposition of the West: Every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians (Stoker 2). Similarly, when a townswoman offers Harker a crucifix upon learning of his intent to visit Draculas castle, he reacts with skepticism: As an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous (Stoker 5). Coming from the scientifically-advanced British society, he looks upon the Eastern superstitions with condescension.Even Stokers descriptions of the Eastern countryside evoke the supernatural. He points out, through Harker, great masses of greyness, which. . .produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect and ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpat hians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys (Stoker 8). As the coach crosses a pass through the mountain range, Harker notes, It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one (Stoker 9). Clearly, his current environment is a far cry from his civilized, ordered fatherland. Indeed, when his train departs late from the station, Harker ethnocentrically remarks, It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains (Stoker 2). Quite explicitly, Stoker demonstrates through Harker an extreme sense of Western superiority; Harker plays the role of a kind of commercial missionary, traveling eastward in order to bring the advanced business practice of the British to less-civilized areas.Reflecting the British fear of invasion of civilization by the forces of barbarism, as proposed by Brantlinger, the protagonists see Dracula as attempting to reverse the arrow of influence. A prisoner in Dracula s castle, Harker finds his way into the Counts sleeping chamber, where he discovers a bloated, ruddy Dracula fresh from a feeding. Harker reacts with horror:This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless. The very thought drove me mad. A terrible desire came upon me to rid the world of such a monster. (Stoker 50)This idea of Dracula spreading the vampire disease throughout bustling London reflects the fin de sià ¨cle fears. . .of racial mingling, crossbreeding, and intermarriage (Showalter 5). The Counts supernatural essence reflects the uncivilized, inferior superstition of his homeland; that he could propagate this unnatural state of being throughout the civilized Western world provides Harker with the impulse to fight back against him.Interestingly, protection of the purity the orde r of the British homeland, as well as British blood, seems to be the sole motivating factor in the protagonists quest to destroy Dracula. By placing a holy communion wafer in forty-nine of the fifty coffins Dracula has brought from Transylvania, thus rendering them uninhabitable for him, the heroes drive him from England. It is worth noting, in fact, that the coffins had been filled with Eastern earth; by infusing them with communion wafers, the heroes effectively remove their Eastern, demoniac quality, in essence anglifying them, leaving Dracula without Eastern refuge in the midst of the West. Lacking his army of viable coffins, Dracula must withdraw from England, attempted invasion thwarted. One would think, though, that the proper course of action for a group of heroes would be to pursue Dracula, that his evil may be removed from the world entirely. After the infected Mina declares under hypnosis that Dracula is returning to the East, however, she asks, Why need we seek him furt her, when he is gone away from us? (Stoker 302). Professor Van Helsing answers that only through Draculas destruction can Minas soul and body be cleansed of the vampire virus. Thus, while the protagonists do chase after the vampire in order to destroy him, they utterly disregard his crimes in the East, caring only of his attempt to perpetrate them in the West, on Western, civilized women. The threat of Dracula, then, is not that he is fundamentally evil (although he and what he represents are both considered evil to the order-seeking protagonists), but only that his evil has begun to encroach on the tranquillity of the West. The heroes seek only a well-ordered society in their own country, and, having driven him back to the East, succeed in that respect; their next task is to pursue him in order to restore a similar order to the Western gender roles as exemplified by Mina.We have seen that Draculas presence in London represents the invasion and subsequent degeneration of the West by less-civilized countries; similarly, the blurred demarcations between the genders in Draculas sphere of influence demonstrate another fin de sià ¨cle British fear, that of the deterioration of traditional gender roles. In her article, Showalter quotes Stoker as writing, The ideal man is entirely or almost entirely masculine and the ideal woman is entirely or almost entirely feminine (Showalter 8). Clearly, he held conservative views of the roles of the sexes, in contrast with the New Woman of the era, who was determined to oppose restrictions and injustices in the political, educational, economic, and sexual realms in order to achieve equality with men (Beckson 129). This paranoia manifests itself in the text of Dracula.In Draculas castle, each gender is suffused with characteristics traditional of the other. Harker, through whose eyes we view this part of the tale, becomes the typical damsel-in-distress figure of popular fairy tales, writing, This castle is a veritable prison, an d I am a prisoner! (Stoker 25). Later, when he chances upon a room containing three beautiful female vampires, they become the sexual predators, and Harker the prey, inverting the usual schema of the aggressive male and the resistant female. Even when he escapes the castle, the psychological wounds incurred by his experiences there leave him sickly and bedridden, having fallen into the traditional, stereotypical role of the weak-bodied woman. Mina writes, All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished (100). As he spends months outside of the castle, however, his illness subsides and his masculinity returns, reaffirming Draculas influence as the cause of this subversion of traditional gender roles.The Count himself, with his quasi-homosexual longing for Harkers blood, represents one of the most feared degenerating agents of the fin de sià ¨cle. Showalter writes, The burgeoning homosexual subculture that had beg un to develop in England in the 1870s and early 1880s was both identified and outlawed (Showalter 14). In an age where the definitions of the respective sexes was in flux, the addition of a new category men who desired men could only exacerbate the already existing paranoia that traditional gender roles were not long for the world. Draculas homoerotic urges are demonstrated by Stoker in his nearly-orgasmic desire for his prisoners blood. When Harker cuts himself shaving, the Counts eyes blaze[d] with a sort of demoniac fury (Stoker 24). This word demoniac reflects the Victorian designation of homosexuality as sinful and unclean. Later, Dracula reacts with jealousy to the sexual advances on Harker of the three women. He says, How dare you touch him, any of you?. . .This man belongs to me!. . .I promise you that when I am done with him, you shall kiss him at your will (Stoker 37). The amalgamation of the sexual impulse and the vampires appetite for blood in these two scenes exhibi ts yet another manner in which Dracula perverts the natural, virtuous order of human society; not only are there homoerotic undertones to these highly sexual scenes, but also an aspect of sadism that cannot be reconciled with the Victorian sensibility.On the other hand, the protagonists, when not under Draculas influence, fall under the traditional gender roles perfectly. The conventional male role is made evident by the sense of chivalry and honor, as well as the definition of manhood, supported by the five men. After Lucy, Arthur Holmwoods betrothed, is infected with the vampire disease, she loses her natural life only to be come an undead creature, preying on the children of London. Professor Van Helsing knows that, in order to save her, the men must drive a stake through her corpses heart, and he chooses Holmwood to do so on the basis of his tremendous virility, which he had noted earlier in the novel: As [Van Helsing] took in his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong y oung manhood which seemed to emanate from him, his eyes gleamed. In order to convince Holmwood to follow through with the grisly act upon he beloved, Van Helsing declares, You are a man, and it is a man we want. . .you are more good than us, old or young, who toil much in the world of thought (Stoker 117-8). To be sure, a physically hardy man is needed for this act, which demands strength of body, but the way in which Van Helsing designates the physically hardy man the most good, most like a true man, speaks volumes about Stokers ideal of masculinity at the fin de sià ¨cle. Later, Quincey Morris echoes this definition of manhood, contrasted with the Victorian feminine ideal:Madam Mina. . .You are too precious to us to have such risk. . .We are men and able to bear; but you must be our star and our hope, and we shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger, such as we are. (Stoker 232-3)This corresponds to the typical male-female dynamic, where the men face the dangers of the external world, encouraged in doing so by the knowledge of their pristine, virtuous womenfolk safe at home.At least before her infection by Dracula, Mina willfully fits this role of the meek, innocent woman to a tee. Early in the novel, in a letter to her friend Lucy Westenra, she writes, When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say (Stoker 52). Here she proposes a similar male-female relationship as Quincey Morris does later in the novel; all quests of the external world are to be undertaken by the man, and the woman is to support him in those endeavors as best she can, without being too meddlesome. In her journal, later in the novel, Mina refers specifically to the New Woman ideal just beginning to blossom at the fin de sià ¨cle, but separates herself from it so as to show her affection for the demarcated gender roles of the past.I believe we should have shocked the New Woman with our appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them!. . .Some of the New Women writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman wont condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too! (Stoker 86-7)Mina describes the newly-burgeoning concept of womanhood with a playful tone, and while she does not condemn it, she seems to consider it fictional, as though it were a game of make-believe to be played by truly feminine women rather than a new social order in the making.Lucys story demonstrates Draculas blurring influence on these traditional Western gender roles, as well as the eventual repulsion of that influence by the forces of order. At the beginning of the novel, Lucy fits into the societal mold of the female: attractive to multiple men through her sweetness and physical beauty, but devoted only to one, Holmwood, considered by Van Helsing to be the most masculine. Showalter quotes Stoker, The most masculine man draws the most feminine woman, and vice versa (Showalter 8). Applying this scheme to his own novel, then, we see Stokers suggestion that, at the onset, Lucy is the most (traditionally) feminine woman. Upon her infection at the hands of Dracula, however, Lucys femininity rapidly wanes as she gains the voracious appetite of the vampire, corresponding to the sexual appetite of the male. She attempts to seduce Holmwood: Oh my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me! (Stoker 154), but Van Helsing stops him from fulfilling her desire; at this point, the virtuous Lucy returns for the last time, thanking the professor, My true friend, and his! Oh, guard him, and give me peace! (Stoker 155). Here the traditionally feminine part of Lucy recognizes the burgeoning sexuality and vampirism within her, as well as the danger she poses to her fiancà © and the social order he represents. Just then, she dies, and the undead vampire within her assumes command over her body and her virtuous disposition.In order to restore traditional gender roles in this individual case, the protagonists are forced to drive a stake through Lucys corpses heart, thereby vanquishing her sexual, vampiric component and leaving only the original innocent one. To do so, Holmwood must once again resist her attempted seductions. She implores, Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come! (Stoker 204-5). Again, the fiancà © is entranced, and only avoids succumbing to temptation through the interference of Van Helsing. When they finally succeed in expelling the vampire virus from Lucys dead body, she becomes again the figure of pure womanhood:There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded as a privilege to the one best entitled to it, but L ucy as we had seen her in her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity. (Stoker 208)Quite literally, by destroying the vampires influence on Lucy, our heroes have restored her to compliance with the traditional ideals of gender and sexuality. In this way, the particular case of Lucy Westenra serves as a microcosm for a larger theme in the novel; the protagonists will now seek to destroy Dracula in order to remove his sole remaining success in England Minas infection thereby banishing the evil blurring force from British society.Though this basic order-seeking, good protagonists / blurring, evil Dracula scheme demonstrates that Stoker supports a general continuation of traditional social roles, he does not go so far as to reject entirely the new order; the character of Professor Abraham Van Helsing embodies his compromising solution to the dilemmas facing Victorian society at the fin de sià ¨cle. From Amsterdam, Van Helsing is a foreigner to England like Dracula, yet the geography of this West-East spectrum speaks volumes of the meaning of the novel. The farthest west is England, with its fiercely scientific beliefs; in the far east side of Europe lies Transylvania, where superstition reigns. The Netherlands, then, represent a middle ground; Van Helsing practices medicine, but he also believes in the existence of supernatural beings like the nosferatu. Thus, it is only he who can mastermind the British defense against Dracula, for only he understands both extremes. He declares, I admit that at first I was sceptic. Were it not that through long years I have trained myself to keep an open mind, I could not have believed until such time as that fact thunder on my ear (Stoker 227). He leads the protagonists to believe in the veracity of vampires, allowing them then to attempt to end Draculas supernatural existence. Similarly, Van Helsing accepts the power of the Victorian womans autonomous mind, but does not attribute to her equality with men. Rega rding Mina, he says,She has a mans brain. . .We men are determined nay, are we not pledged? to destroy this monster, but it is no part for a woman. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. (Stoker 226)Whereas the other men talk only of Minas virtue and innocence, Van Helsing acknowledges her intelligence, again exhibiting a moderation between the extreme order of England and disorder of Transylvania. Yet even while doing so, Van Helsing still advocates the traditional view that external dangers should be, and can be, braved only by men. By designating such a man as the leader of the protagonists, Stoker seems to support an intermediate stance although obviously closer to traditional than to revolutionary in the fin de sià ¨cle crisis of social structure. Conservative though he may have been, then, Stoker did recognize the changing face of Victo rian society at the end of the 19th century, and did his best to develop a view that could be accepted by all factions. Works CitedBeckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992.Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.Carroll, Noel. The Philosophy of Horror. New York: Routledge, 1990.Showalter, Elaine. Sexual Anarachy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Sià ¨cle. New York: Viking, 1990.Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Aerie Books, 1988.

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The Company at present and compiling the recent scenario is exploring option to expand its business opportunities in the next five years to its other branches within the information and the communication technology. The Company also plans to expand its business to all p arts of Australia and if possible overseas also. The future options of this organization are to diversify the business to provide the ongoing information and the network security services to the various businesses, which have a presence on the online platform. This will require management of the online security of those organizations, websites and the database of the clients. The report is an investigation of the possibility of the expansion of the business. The following report provides the discussion regarding the information and the security applications that are there in the market at present and its uses. The report also focuses on the security and the technological aspects of the advantages and the risks involved. Discussion Information Security and Network Security The information security refers to the number of the strategies that are used to manage the different processes, the tools and the policies, which are important for the prevention, detection, documentation, and to counter the threats to the digital and the non-digital information. It is also called as the infosec. Infosec has the responsibility to establish the business process to protect the assets of information despite the information being in the mode of formatting or transition or is at rest in the storage or being processed Panda, Abraham Patra, 2012). The network security on the other hand refers to any action that is designed for the protection of the usability and integrity of the network and the data. The network security is effective and manages the access to the network. 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There is the creation of the shared password session that is provided to the client and the server for the encryption of the messages. For the purpose of the encryption the Kerberos uses DES that is the data encryption standard. The customer or the client has make a request for the ticket granting service from the application and then this application sends the ticket to the respective client that has the encryption of the client password key. The generation of the authenticators by t he client is done by sharing the password keys. If the credentials provided by the client are approved, then the server grants access to the service (Mahajan Sachdeva, 2013). There is a possibility to replace all the client Kerberos software with a version, which records the passwords. Web Security Standards These use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol for providing a reliable and secure service on the Transmission Control Protocol. The web security threats are located at the server or the customer and include passive and active attacks. The passive attacks comprises of the access to the network traffic between the browser and the server and accessing the restricted information. The active attacks comprise of the impersonation as another user and alteration of the messages and the information on a website. There are security parameters to define the association between the browser and the server. There is provision of the confidentiality by using the symmetric encryption and message integrity. The message integrity is determined by the shared password key, which is used in the form of the message authentication code. During the alert, there is through a simple warning and if the alert is fatal then there is termination of the connection. The alert messages are sent using the codes (K umar, Ashok Subramanian, 2012). IP Security Application This application is an agenda of the open standards that ensure private and secure communications over the internet protocol networks using the cryptographic protection services. This security is a collection of protection services that are cryptography based. The authentication and the privacy mechanisms of the protected internet protocol provide the basis for the security strategy for the individuals (Park et al., 2012). There is protection of the pair of hosts and security gateways. There is the provision of the authentication of the origin of the data, encryption that ensures the data is not leaked and the data has not been changed on the way. There is also detection of the things that are received more than once so help to protect against the defiance of the service attacks. The implementation of this application enables the provision of a strong security. This application is below the transport layer and is transparent in nature. The implementation of this application in the en d system does not affect the upper layer software and the applications. This application also provides security to the individual users if required. Expansion Opportunities of the Company The Company at present and compiling the recent scenario is exploring option to expand its business opportunities in the next five years to its other branches within the information and the communication technology. The Company also plans to expand its business to all parts of Australia and if possible overseas also (Franke Brynielsson, 2014). The future options of this organization are to diversify the business to provide the ongoing information and the network security services to the various businesses, which have a presence on the online platform. This will require management of the online security of those organizations, websites and the database of the clients. The world is changing at a pace and there are risks to the information assets of the businesses and the individuals. Online applications, cloud computing and the mobility are the new technologies that are adopted as the value of the information is high and is a major organizational asset. The incidents of the cyber atta cks, cyber spying, ransomware, threats of the insider are reported frequently. The immunity to these security breaches is low hence, the usage of the applications that specialize in the information and the network security area is necessary. Before the consideration for expansion of the business, there are some points to be kept in mind. The managing of the new locations for the expansion is necessary (Barnaghi et al., 2012). There has to be the managing of the energy and the resources between the new and the old locations. It has to be kept in mind if the expanding entity will be a separate entity or subsidiary of the main Company. The tax implications and the policies have to be kept in mind. A comprehensive analysis of the financial investment is important. The information about the competitors and their operations is necessary. The performance of the competitors also has to be tracked and analyzed. To expand the business a few strategies have to be followed: A market segmentation analysis has to be done firstly. The SWOT analysis of the Organization has to be performed before the expansion of the Company all over Australia and overseas. There has to be a development of a strategy and a business plan. The setting of the reasonable goals to measure the progress and the cost benefits has to be done by the management. The tactical project has to be planned with commitment of the dates. The government and the industry specific regulations have to be ensured and reviewed with proper certifications. Off shelf software and in-house products The off-shelf software has a lower up-front cost that contains the features that is required. The support can be added with the maintenance contract and the upgrades are provided at a reduced cost. If the software is a software-as-a-service them there is o requirement of installation of hardware or software (Barnaghi et al., 2012). The customization may be started with the minimum necessary requirements and can be added on later. This can be also tailored according to the needs and the processes of the organization. The desired changes can be made quickly. However, there is high initial cost involved. Most of the changes and the features that will be requested will have to be paid. The ramping up of the new developers may incur additional costs. While the in-house software will be produced by the organization that may later be available for the commercial use and be on the solitary judgment of the organization, which is developing. The need to develop this software is when there is t he non-availability of the software in the market. Both the customization of the off shelf software and the development of the in-house software has its pros and cons but the customization of the off-shelf software will enable the Company in the opportunity to expand its business (Choo, 2014). Reasons for Success The security adults helps to identify the security risks and the validation of the protection devices. The security adults enable the laying of the groundwork for identification to secure the infrastructure. These also provide the objective insight on the effectiveness of the complete security program (Barnaghi et al., 2012). The managing security helps to manage the security flaws. There is the maintenance and administration along with the reliable monitoring and evaluation of the events, which take place on a daily basis. The advancement in the security management software has reduced the responsibilities of the security personnel. The security policy is another reason for the success of the organization. The company has an information security policy and the company expects to conduct it themselves with the matters that affect the security position of the business. Some policies are related to security and the other policies are in terms of their impact to the security risks regar ding to the non-IT employees. The security is classified as the deep technology category and there is the use of the complex techniques that includes the block chain. The fusion of the technical expertise with the domain expertise is a powerful combination (Alrajeh, Khan Shams, 2013). Probable reasons for Failure There may be common misconceptions arising in the organization. There has to be the availability of the latest data-loss prevention tool with the organization. The fundamental issue within the culture of the organization that may cause some risks to arise is a problem. The applications of the traditional security strategies also tend to give rise to risks. These traditional security methods do not provide the visibility f the different risks. There is security risk in the culture and the enforcement area also. There are certain manners and activities, which correlate to the likelihood of a breach-taking place (Vacca, 2012). There has to be the provision of the necessary data that support the strategic decision-making, if these are not provided then risks will arise which may lead to the failure. The choice overload may also be a reason for the failure of the plan to expand the business (Barnaghi et al., 2012). The underinvestment for this plan for expansion may lead to the failure of the expansion plan. There can be threats by the hackers and of the cyber breaches. The organization has to be prepared for these threats and attacks. It will be impossible to respond to each one of the reported attacks but the company has to be alert at every moment. Conclusion Thereby the following report is an investigation of the possibility of the expansion of the business. The following report gives the discussion regarding the information and the security functions that are there in the market at hand and its uses. The report has provided with a focus on the protection and the technical aspects of the advantages and the risks involved. The respective Company is a small software organization that was established less than five years ago. The software organization is based in Melbourne. The company deals with the expansion and the customization of the applications that concentrate in the information and the network security area. The Company at present and compiling the recent circumstances is exploring option to increase its production opportunities in the next five years to its other branches within the information and the communication technology. The events of the cyber attacks, cyber spying, ransomware, threats of the insider are reported frequentl y. The immunity to these protection breaches is low hence, the usage of the applications that focus in the information and the network security area is necessary. Before the deliberation for expansion of the business, there are some points to be kept in mind, which have been discussed in the report. The managing of the new locations for the expansion is necessary. There has to be the managing of the energy and the resources between the new and the old locations. The network security is effective and manages the access to the network. The duty of the network security is to target the threats and stops them from spreading to the network of an individual. Recommendations There should be the implementation of the network segmentation. This comprises of the classifying and the categorizing of the information and technology assets, data and the employees into definite groups. The placing of the resources in the different areas of the network of the organization will not allow the exploitation of the entire system. If this is not there in the system of the Company then the cyber threats will make the organization vulnerable (Enck et al., 2014). There should be usage of the secure remote access methods, which have the ability to connect to the network in a remote manner. This enhances the convenience for the end users. The encrypted data channel allows for sending and receiving data through the public infrastructure. With the help of the Virtual Private Network, the users will have remotely access to their resources. There should be use of strong passwords only to keep the system and the information secure. 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