Cookies, Privacy and Cyber Security: A Look at the Importance of Cybersecurity in the US

Running head: COOKIES, PRIVACY AND CYBER SECURITY
October 11
2018

COOKIES, PRIVACY AND CYBER SECURITY 1
Cybersecurity has always been very important for the United States government and that
too from centuries. Due to globalization, advancements in IT and E-commerce sector, the rise in
cybercrime had caused a drastic loss to not only to the government but also its citizens. The
United States of America had actually faced the highest number of problem in the year 2016.
The cybercrimes rose up to millions of cases on daily basis not only in the technology but also in
the personal aspects (PwC, 2018).
The main and foremost concept of cybersecurity is too aware the companies about the
cybercrimes happening around. Attacks such as Trojan horses, phishing, viruses, denial of
service (DOS), control system hacks and stealing of intellectual property or the confidential
information are known as "Cyberattacks". The main aim is to force companies and individuals to
protect their very own personal and confidential data from cyberattack. (Nortan, 2017)
Cybersecurity Act of 2015 which was approved by the United State of Congress actually
helped both the private and government-owned IT firms and various other companies to come up
with all the problems related to cyberattacks (Raul, 2017). And under this act, the information
regarding the threats or fear of any cybercrime can be easily transmitted to one company to
another, in order to rectify the same. And through sharing and gathering of such information, the
government can smoothly be able to synchronize between defensive and intelligence actions. On
17th February 2018, the co-founder of computer security firm Crowd Strike old in an exclusive
report that the United States of America is "defenseless" or in "danger" to cybersecurity attacks
and the government badly need to gear up their defense strategies in any manner (Amaro, &
Gamble, 2017).