An Analysis of Cybersecurity Threats and Mitigation Strategies

This essay delves into the critical realm of cybersecurity, examining the escalating threats faced by businesses, especially small and medium-sized organizations, in the wake of technological advancements. It identifies three primary cybersecurity threats: man-in-the-middle attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and data breaches, detailing their mechanisms and potential impacts. The essay underscores the importance of proactive measures, recommending strategies such as employing high-grade encryption, providing employee cybersecurity training, and regularly updating software and hardware. By analyzing these threats and outlining effective mitigation strategies, the essay offers valuable insights for organizations aiming to safeguard their sensitive information and data in an increasingly interconnected digital landscape. The essay concludes by emphasizing the necessity of continuous vigilance and the adoption of comprehensive security protocols to minimize risks and enhance data security.

CYBERSECURITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Cybersecurity threats can be defined as a kind of malicious threat that can result in data
theft, data loss or damage to online information or data (Mittal and et. al., 2016). Nowadays
cybersecurity theft is increasing continuously. In past five years due to advancement in
technology cybersecurity threats has increasing drastically especially for small or medium sized
organizations. this essay will focus upon three major types of cybersecurity threats and strategies
though which these threats can be minimized.
MAIN BODY
Cybersecurity threats
Due to advancement in technology usage of smart devices have increased. Many small
business organizations have started sing these smart technological devices that can be used by
them. This excessive usage of devices has made organizations dependent and most of them use it
for storage of sensitive or important information or for providing services to customers. This has
increased chances of cyber security threats for business. There are various kinds of cybersecurity
threats but three main types of threats that can impact business small or medium sized
organization are: man in the middle attack, denial of service attack and data breech.
Man in the middle attack: It is a kind of cybersecurity threat in which attacker focuses upon
establishment of as position in between sender and receiver, so that they can easily interpreted or
read messages sent by them (Narayanan and et. al., 2018). Any kind of electronic messages
communicated between sender and receiver can also be changed in between by the attacker
without their knowledge. Both sender and receiver might think that they are communicating with
each other. It is one of the main types of threat for organizations because due to this attack risk of
sensitive information leakage can increase.
Denial of service attack: In this attack attacker uses many devices so that they can involve
functions of target system. Due to this attack official business websites of organizations can be
caused to crash due to overloaded demand.
Data Breech: It is another type of threat in which data breech is done to commit a crime. It is one
of the most serious type of cybersecurity threat (How Data Breaches happen: What they are and
why it matters, 2020).
All the three types of threats can impact small business organizations and security of their
information or data.
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Strategies to minimize threat
Some of the most common type of strategies that can be used to minimize these threats
are:
Organizations can use high grade encryption system for storing or transmitting sensitive
information.
Another strategy is to provide basic cybersecurity training to employees so that they can
understand ways in which they can put efforts to protect their sensitive or important data or
information Narayanan and et. al., 2018.
Another strategy to reduce cybersecurity threat is to upgrade software and hardware as soon as
latest upgrade is available so that venerable threats can be reduced.
CONCLUSION
From the above essay it has been summarised that there are many different kinds of
cybersecurity threats that can impact business and can increase risk associated with important
and sensitive information for organizations. there are many different kinds of strategies that are
required to be focused upon by organizations so that they can reduce their risk of cybersecurity
threats and enhance their security of data or information.
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REREFENCES
Books and Journals
Mittal, S., and et. al., 2016, August. Cybertwitter: Using twitter to generate alerts for
cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. In 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (pp. 860-867). IEEE.
Narayanan, S.N., and et. al., 2018, October. Early detection of cybersecurity threats using
collaborative cognition. In 2018 IEEE 4th international conference on collaboration
and internet computing (CIC) (pp. 354-363). IEEE.
Online
How Data Breaches happen: What they are and why it matters. 2020. [Online]. Available
though: < https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/data-breach >
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