Cyber Security Measures and Future Exploration

The assignment discusses personal cyber security measures, highlighting the importance of protecting oneself against threats and malicious activities in the digital world. The student proposes three key areas for future exploration: user-based protection through biometric locks, implementation of access controls on devices, and detailed log creation to track internet activity and patch up security holes. Additionally, firewalls are suggested as a means to guard private networks against malicious users.

FUTURE EXPLORATION
Student
27 October 2016

Contents
PERSONAL CYBER SECURITY MEASURE............................................................................................2
THREE KEY AREAS FOR FUTURE EXPLORATION.............................................................................2
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................................3
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PERSONAL CYBER SECURITY MEASURE
In the world of technology, where innovation is key, there also comes the other side called, risks.
The cyber world is full of risks and hence comes the need to protect oneself against all the threats
and malicious activities. Be it network devices, the network itself, the servers or the local devices,
every device is surrounded by threat and vulnerabilities. Thus to protect my system from misuse or
prevent the information theft, I use user based protection against such activities. I use biometric
locks on my device to safeguard it. In biometrics there are multiple methods, out of which I use
finger print scanning to lock my system. Under this method only my finger print can unlock my
system, hence no one can misuse it even if it stolen. Although there are many other ways but I find
this method as one of the best practices that I can adopt.
THREE KEY AREAS FOR FUTURE EXPLORATION
1. Use of Access Controls
Implementation of access control on my device can be another security area. For example securing
the personal data like social media passwords, account information, sensitive bank information
stored in the device, other information like images, chats etc. This can be done when try to
implement access control on individual applications via application locking tools or procedures.
These ensure that the application and the data within them is secure and not misused intentionally
or unintentionally.
2. Detailed Log creation
Logging can be another area for exploration which can help in guarding against the cyber threats. We
can maintain the cyber security if we implement logs and record the internet activity. This can be
done by adding tools to the device which maintains the logs. So now wherever an attack takes
places or any intrusion, such addresses can be traced and blocked. Thus we will be able to track
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any security holes in application and hence can be secured against any such internet threats. Also
we cab patch up such holes and maintain a security protocol.
3. Use of firewalls
We can use firewalls to guard our private network against malicious users. The malicious IP address
we find via logging can be blocked in future via firewalls. Or we can even block other website
URLs, pop ups, ads etc. which can be used for social engineering or phishing. Firewalls
implementation cab be done by installing anti-virus software or other specialized firewall tools. Also
they can filter every message packet, hence making it sure that only secure and safe messages
reach the message.
REFERENCES
Zanderigo, M., 2016. 10 Best Practices for Cyber Security in 2016. [Online]
Available at: http://www.observeit.com/blog/10-best-practices-cyber-security-2016
[Accessed 26 October 2016].
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