Reference no: EM132298057

A sudden increase of market products identical to those produced by your client have shown up on the international market. The products in question all have been patented by TransManuCo with the US Patent Office. Additionally, some of these products, identical to the TransManuCo products, have entered the country from shadow companies outside the United States.

A recent attack on the company has occurred perpetrated by a rival producer of transportation parts. This rival set up a false Facebook page using the TransManuCo trademark to appear more legitimate. They inserted information into the page to make it appear that TransManuCo was not an American company but a foreign company working out an undisclosed location in China. Comments on the page that appeared to be clients of TransManuCo made disparaging remarks about the company's policies on stealing of others intellectual property, breaking copyright laws. The attempt was to discredit TransManuCo and take their business.

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• A brief discussion of what the issue or threat is and how it could affect the company
• What cyber security laws or compliance standards are affected
• What actions the company should take to mitigate the issue or decrease the potential threat