Cybersecurity: Protecting Home and Office from Cyberattacks

This document discusses the importance of cybersecurity, security vulnerabilities in ABCT's system, types of emerging threats in cybersecurity, and provides tips on how to protect your home and office from cyberattacks.

TITLE: CYBERSECURITY
Cybersecurity
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TITLE................................................................................................................…………... ……..i
TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................………….ii
ABSTRACT ........................................................................................……………………………iii
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ .v
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Importance of Cybersecurity . ...................................................................................… 1
Security vulnerabilities in ABCT’s system......................................................................2
Types of emerging threats Cybersecurit ……………………………………………….3
How to protect home and office from cyberattack…………………………………....4
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................……..6
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Abstract
Security vulnerability in a computer is a defect within its system which create holes for attack. It
can also be anything which allows information to be visible to external threats. Network personnel's
and computer users can also perform some protection measures to such vulnerabilities by always
ensuring all the software's in computer are in the latest versions. Always software's are upgraded for
security measures and therefore all the latest versions have the most secured features as compared
to previous versions (Ivy, Lee, Franz, & Crumpton, 2019).
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Introduction
Cyber threats continue to emerge and evolve everyday as long as the technology keeps evolving
also. All the IT experts should be up to date on such emerging issues. Cybersecurity is the
protection of computer systems from malicious attacks. It might be hardware, software or even data
being transferred. This is the general security given to computers and there networks in general.
Businesses this days experience a lot of security issues since almost everything is implemented
electronically hence they can be vulnerable to the malicious attackers. Cyber attacks is emerging
issues in day to day life's (Ahmad, 2019). Every organizations be it small or large experience the
thread of Cyber attacks in their systems. In this scenario, we take a look at ABCT company security
issues concerning its IT department. The cost of data breaches is extremely expensive. The cost of
this Cyber attacks are very expensive for businesses to endure. The values on the estimated cost is
so big such that even after assumption the big company still make big losses. This situation has
really let extreme lose of customers because they run away due to sufferings from Cyber attacks
(Ivy, Lee, Franz, & Crumpton, 2019). Having an history of poor security issues will lead to no
contacts hence business will close down. ABCT company should be much careful of the data
breaches since customers will not buy there products because of this issue which will breach also
the customers trust. Malware is the malicious software or codes which are harmful to the computer
systems. They are developed by malicious attacks to obtain sensitive information such as email
passwords and also bank cards passwords. Malicious attacker might send a program then some
employees might just click download. If several of them installs then there is high chances of the
hacker getting sensitive information. This can however prevented by only installing of software
through trusted vendors and with help of the IT experts. ABCT employees should be inform and the
precautions is to be taken (Petit, 2019).
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Importance of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the protection of computer systems from malicious attacks. It might be hardware,
software or even data being transferred. This is the general security given to computers and there
networks in general. Businesses this days experience a lot of security issues since almost
everything is implemented electronically hence they can be vulnerable to the malicious attackers.
Cyber attacks is emerging issues in day to day life's. Every organizations be it small or large
experience the thread of Cyber attacks in their systems. In this scenario, we take a look at ABCT
company security issues concerning its IT department (Ahmad, 2019).
The cost of data breaches is extremely expensive. The cost of this Cyber attacks are very expensive
for businesses to endure. The values on the estimated cost is so big such that even after assumption
the big company still make big losses. This situation has really let extreme lose of customers
because they run away due to sufferings from Cyber attacks. Having an history of poor security
issues will lead to no contacts hence business will close down. ABCT company should be much
careful of the data breaches since customers will not buy there products because of this issue which
will breach also the customers trust (Chothia, Novakovic, Radu, & Thomas, 2019).
Sophisticated hackers have taken root in almost all places. There main target is big firms since they
have large data to handle and also leaks can be possible sometimes due to careless employees who
doesn't want to be so serious about this issue. Hackers sniff through all the systems of the company
even if it takes them years to gain access. Once they gain access then there mission will be
accomplish since it is very hard to detect vulnerabilities in large firms. Has technology advance,
also hackers become more sophisticated and dangerous. Therefore big companies like ABCT should
always check systems all the time to prevent breaches which might give access to the malicious
hackers. IT department should be very alert and regularly checking their firewalls for any attempt
attacks hence they will always be careful (Harris, & Martin, 2019).
Hacking tools are all over the internet nowadays. This has really facilitate the hackers to launch
attacks all the time they want to because more advance software tools are being developed
everyday. Hackers are becoming more dangerous nowadays due to available of too many tools and
resources to launch an attack. Cybercrime nowadays is common since availability of powerful
software such as ransomware and crypto mining are readily available and affordable to use. All
companies should be more careful and focused on the security of the IT departments (Li et al.,
2019).
Strict regulations has save fortune in almost 80% of the companies. The regulations states that if in
any case the company is found under Cyber crimes then the company will be fined large amount of
money which is more than the amount required to invest in Cybersecurity. GDPR regulations
introduced by EU has really forced the companies to be more focused and careful on their
Cybersecurity issue. The rules requires the protection of person data irregardless of customers or
employees from malicious attack. This has led to security boost because if a company allows any
access to personal data whether it was hacked the that is breach of trust and the penalty is a big fine.
ABCT company should always take care of it's resources by strengthening the Cybersecurity. This
is the most priority thing (Mcdonald et al., 2019, January).
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Security vulnerabilities in ABCT’s system
Security vulnerability in a computer is a defect within its system which create holes for attack. It
can also be anything which allows information to be visible to external threats. Network personnel's
and computer users can also perform some protection measures to such vulnerabilities by always
ensuring all the software's in computer are in the latest versions. Always software's are upgraded for
security measures and therefore all the latest versions have the most secured features as compared
to previous versions (Chothia, Novakovic, Radu, & Thomas, 2019).
There are several security vulnerabilities:
1) Malware
Malware is the malicious software or codes which are harmful to the computer systems. They are
developed by malicious attacks to obtain sensitive information such as email passwords and also
bank cards passwords. Malicious attacker might send a program then some employees might just
click download. If several of them installs then there is high chances of the hacker getting sensitive
information. This can however prevented by only installing of software through trusted vendors and
with help of the IT experts. ABCT employees should be inform and the precautions is to be taken
(Linkov, Zámečník, Havlíčková, & Pai, 2019).
2) Phishing
Phishing is Cyber attack which uses email as a tool attack. It send a message through an individual
email asking for some sensitive information such as bank passwords or anything else they want.
The message they send just look exactly like it is from the right source. Also they send some URL
links which are almost similar to companies trusted but they only change one or two letters and
because most people are not keen they just click and log in. From there they just get the credentials
and they can manipulate for there purpose. ABCT employees and everyone should be very careful
and always ensure they use the website they normally use (Zong, Ritter, Mueller, & Wright,
2019).
3) Botnets
Botnets is virus software used to attack the systems and collect sensitive information. They just
send to screen of users asking then to click yes options and when they do so the virus is installed
and everything will be in a mess. It is good to have antivirus and always updating it regularly so that
it can detected such viruses. ABCT IT department should install latest antivirus in all computers and
they should remind users to always update them (Addae, Sun, Towey, & Radenkovic, 2019).
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Types of emerging threats in Cybersecurity
Cyber threats continue to emerge and evolve everyday as long as the technology keeps evolving
also. All the IT experts should be up to date on such emerging issues.
1) Cryptojacking
Cryptojacking are malware just similar to ransomware. They were used to mine cryptocurrencies in
the recent past. This software might lead to data collection in the systems and exposes to the
malicious personnel. IT department of ABCT company should always warn anyone trying to install
that software since it might affect the entire system (Harris, & Martin, 2019).
2) Internet of Things (IoT) device threats
Internet of Things (IoT) device threats will be more dangerous in future. This will leads to loop
holes to malicious attacking since they are connected to internet to function hence it may provide
gateway access to the systems through the network connections. A lot of precaution should be taken
before using this new technologies (Denning, 2019).
3) Geopolitical risks
Geopolitical risks is another factor. Most people nowadays selects the vendors from specific
countries due to security purpose of the third party information. Before someone chooses something
then they see it is from where. This has really impact on the global business functioning due to such
risks of choosing basing on certain countries (Lédeczi, Zare, & Stein, 2019, February).
4) Cross-site scripting
Cross-site scripting attacks allow the advertisers to utilize the business website to control the
victim's browser, making the criminal to have one on one communication hence stealing their
cookie information. The credentials are hijacked without the victim understanding what is going on
(Ricci, Breitinger, & Baggili, 2019).
5) Mobile malware
Mobile malware is now the most trending since everyone uses the phone and android apps are all
over. This malicious attackers develops an android app similar to certain apps to collect details
using it. Every time someone wants to install then they should be careful to avoid such spam
(Cohen, 2019).
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How to protect home and office from cyberattack
Home and office security is very important since laptops and phones are mostly used in daily life
hence it needs protection of high quality. The networks both in home and offices should be well
protected. This is be most basic and very important step of security.
The fallowing methods can be used:
1) Secure firmware update
This means that all the firmware must be updated from only trusted vendors. If this will not be take
care of the most probably the systems will be destroyed be it a PC or a laptop. So this is very
important in both home and office (Denning, 2019).
2) Data Protection
Data protection is another most important issue. Network must be secured all the time for sending
and receiving messages. Network in both home and offices must be very secured (Dameff, Selzer,
Fisher, Killeen, & Tully, 2019).
3) Back up of systems
Backing up of the systems should be done regularly so that in case of attack of stealing of data then
at least there is back up. This applies in both home and offices regardless. This is the most important
step of preventing data lose in case your PC or laptop hangs up (Jalali, Razak, Gordon, Perakslis,
& Madnick, 2019).
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Conclusion
Cybersecurity is the protection of computer systems from malicious attacks. It might be hardware,
software or even data being transferred. This is the general security given to computers and there
networks in general. Businesses this days experience a lot of security issues since almost
everything is implemented electronically hence they can be vulnerable to the malicious attackers.
Cyber attacks is emerging issues in day to day life's. Every organizations be it small or large
experience the thread of Cyber attacks in their systems. In this scenario, we take a look at ABCT
company security issues concerning its IT department (Zong, Ritter, Mueller, & Wright, 2019).
Malware is the malicious software or codes which are harmful to the computer systems. They are
developed by malicious attacks to obtain sensitive information such as email passwords and also
bank cards passwords. Malicious attacker might send a program then some employees might just
click download. If several of them installs then there is high chances of the hacker getting sensitive
information. This can however prevented by only installing of software through trusted vendors and
with help of the IT experts. ABCT employees should be inform and the precautions is to be taken
(Linkov, Zámečník, Havlíčková, & Pai, 2019).
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