Cyber Security
The technique of protecting internet-connected systems such as computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks is known as cybersecurity. We can divide cybersecurity into two parts one is cyber, and the other is security. Cyber refers to the technology that includes systems, networks, programs, and data. And security is concerned with the protection of systems, networks, applications, and information. In some cases, it is also called electronic information security or information technology security.
Types of Cyber Security
Every organization's assets are the combinations of a variety of different systems. These systems have a strong cybersecurity posture that requires coordinated efforts across all of its systems. Therefore, we can categorize cybersecurity in the following sub-domains:
Network Security: It involves implementing the hardware and software to secure a computer network from unauthorized access, intruders, attacks, disruption, and misuse. This security helps an organization to protect its assets against external and internal threats.
Application Security: It involves protecting the software and devices from unwanted threats. This protection can be done by constantly updating the apps to ensure they are secure from attacks. Successful security begins in the design stage, writing source code, validation, threat modeling, etc., before a program or device is deployed.
Information or Data Security: It involves implementing a strong data storage mechanism to maintain the integrity and privacy of data, both in storage and in transit.
Identity management: It deals with the procedure for determining the level of access that each individual has within an organization.
Operational Security: It involves processing and making decisions on handling and securing data assets.
Mobile Security: It involves securing the organizational and personal data stored on mobile devices such as cell phones, computers, tablets, and other similar devices against various malicious threats. These threats are unauthorized access, device loss or theft, malware, etc.
Cloud Security: It involves in protecting the information stored in the digital environment or cloud architectures for the organization. It uses various cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, etc., to ensure security against multiple threats.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning: It deals with the processes, monitoring, alerts, and plans to how an organization responds when any malicious activity is causing the loss of operations or data. Its policies dictate resuming the lost operations after any disaster happens to the same operating capacity as before the event.
User Education: It deals with the processes, monitoring, alerts, and plans to how an organization responds when any malicious activity is causing the loss of operations or data. Its policies dictate resuming the lost operations after any disaster happens to the same operating capacity as before the event.
Types of Cyber Security Threats
A threat in cybersecurity is a malicious activity by an individual or organization to corrupt or steal data, gain access to a network, or disrupts digital life in general. The cyber community defines the following threats available today:
Malware.
Ransomware.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Spam and Phishing.
Corporate Account Takeover (CATO)
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Cash Out.
Benefits of Cyber Security
The following are the benefits of implementing and maintaining cybersecurity:
Cyberattacks and data breach protection for businesses.
Data and network security are both protected.
Unauthorized user access is avoided.
After a breach, there is a faster recovery time.
End-user and endpoint device protection.
Regulatory adherence.
Continuity of operations.
Developers, partners, consumers, stakeholders, and workers have more faith in the company's reputation and trust.
To provide leadership and technical solutions to business needs and functions. leadership in purchasing hardware and software to maximize value. To enhance communications, collaboration, and the flow of information.
Develop future computing models, software and services in close collaboration with internal and external communities, through fundamental research, to meet both scaling challenges, and novel requirements, such as those in the areas of storage and data management, Network security.