Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity refers to any method, technique, or procedure for preventing cyberattacks or reducing their impacts. Cybersecurity works to defend against anything for both individuals and businesses' systems, apps, computing devices, sensitive data, and money, from simple and annoying computer viruses to difficult and expensive hacker attempts. Businesses can be harmed, damaged, or destroyed by cyberattacks, and the cost to victims keeps going rapidly. Oct 9, 2023
For instance, the Cost of a Data Breach 2023 report from IBM states that :-
- In 2023, the data breach cost increased after two years. It became 4.45 million USD.
- In 2023, the data breach cost for ransomware was 5.13 million USD. It was significantly higher than previous few years. (1st sentence only)
According to one prediction, by 2025, cybercrime will cost the global economy USD 10.5 trillion annually.
Information technology (IT) trends from the past few years include the increase in cloud computing adoption, network complexity, remote work and work from home programs, bring your own device (BYOD) policies, and connected devices and sensors in everything from doorbells to cars to assembly lines. The number of methods of attack available to cybercriminals has increased significantly, ignoring the fact that these trends have considerably helped businesses and progressed humanity.
A recent study calculated the global cybersecurity worker gap to be 3.4 million persons, or the difference between the number of cybersecurity experts already employed and the number of cybersecurity jobs that need to be filled.Security teams are focusing on creating complete cybersecurity plans that include advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation in order to fight cyberthreats more efficiently and minimize the effects of cyberattacks when they do happen.
Types of cybersecurity
A strong cybersecurity strategy safeguards all of the important domains and levels of the IT infrastructure from cyberthreats and cybercrime.
1. Infrastructure Security : The critical infrastructure security protects the computer systems, networks, technology, application and data for protecting national security, public health and economic health. The cybersecurity framework has been developed by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and National Institutes of Standards and Technology for assisting IT in various areas. Also the Department of Homeland Security provides assistance and advice.
2. Network : Additionally, stopping the unwanted resources needed to detect and fight cyberattacks and hacking attacks. The security of the network guarantees that only authorized users will have access to network resources when they need it.
3. Endpoint security : This security protects against various gadgets, networks and users that try to attack your entry points from attackers. (2nd sentence only).
4. Application : The applications that run in the background and are cloud protected to the applications that did not give unauthorized access that can use essential data. (1st sentence only).
5. Information Security : The focus of the Info security measures are related to the data security that protects digital information of users. (last sentence).
6. Mobile : The application of mobile management and enterprise mobile management are two important technologies and disciplines of mobile security that are applicable in smartphones and mobile security. The more recent development of mobile security is unified endpoint management that allows security and setup control for various devices from a single console.
