Cybersecurity: Protecting 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
CHAPTER
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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