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Cyber Security Issues and Challenges - PDF

   

Added on  2021-05-31

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Cyber-Security 1Table of ContentsExecutive Summary.........................................................................................................................2Identification of threats and attacks.................................................................................................2Challenges and issues......................................................................................................................3Mitigation strategies........................................................................................................................3Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4References........................................................................................................................................5

Cyber-Security 2Executive Summary Cyber security, IT security, computer security is the cure of computer and systems from the theft,damage to the hardware, software or information. Apart from this, motive of cyber security is toprevent the data in secured manner so that no one could misdirect the services with wrongintentions. It includes various aspects such as controlling the access to the hardware andproviding protection against harm which comes through network access, code injection and data.Internet is the major cause of cybercrimes and on the other hand, it acts as the most effective toolwhich has made various things possible which were imaginary before. Computers, laptop,wireless network, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, smartphones, etc. are part of internet of things [1]. Securingthe data kept inside these devices is known as cybersecurity. This is used is multinationalcorporations to secure their client’s information, used by banks to keep secure their consumersand other resources safe and secure and by every industry and enterprise who have somethingconfidential to keep. Under this report, threats and attacks will be discussed in relevance with cybersecurity alongwith this, challenges and issues will also be covered to analyse crucial aspects of thecybersecurity. Further, report focuses over mitigation measures to overcome from the issues andchallenges faced due to cybersecurity. Identification of threats and attacksCybercrimes are increasing day-by-day and till the time, prevention measures have beendeveloped for all those cybercrimes which have been occurred yet. Cybersecurity cannot begiven to those incidents which are not yet happened. Following are certain crucial measures andthreats in relevance with cybersecurity:Unauthorised accessTheft of dataHackingUnauthorised access determines that the third party is accessing company’s secret or confidentialinformation without taking permit from the organizational management. Organizational serversstore financial and other confidential information which could be used in wrong manner by anythird party. Access is given to only relevant users of the organization to record the transactionsand full access is also not provided to them. If third party will get the access for wholeinformation, it could lead to several issues such as data theft and misuse of organizational data[1].Data theft is a type of cyber-attack under which third party user get the access to surf and obtainsecret information from organizational servers. Credential stored in the organizational servers oftheir clients could easily be misused. This could also be done by internal employees if they getfull access over system. Hackers are the computer experts and they have computer skills through which they gainunapproved access to a computer system. All these practices are only possible when a system isconnected with internet and without internet, nothing is possible but in this busy lifecycle,

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