“It is important to know the attack techniques cause if you don’t know how attack tools work, and you don’t know what attackers are doing, you won’t be able to curate a strategy on how to respond to these attacks”–
Jessica Payne from Microsoft Security Incident Response Professional
In the age of computing and technology, something that an ordinary person should know is that we all need to keep in mind that no computer device is totally secure and every computers have security vulnerabilities.
These can range from organizational computer networks and servers that can be local or remote, wired and wireless up to ordinary users of different technologies such as ATM machines, CCTV cameras and our daily devices such as tablets, personal desktop computers, phones, and even printers.
Cyber Security is now a big concern for everyone especially because we are in the information technology era. If we define “CYBER” based from the definition of Merriam-webster.com it is a word that involves computer networks or computers that can be connected to the internet. The root word “SECURITY” which means the state of being secure.
If we combine both words, we can then define CYBER SECURITY as the ability to protect one-self and others from unauthorized attacks related to computers in general. These can be attacks in computer networks, attacks on computer systems, and attacks to computer users.
We understand the fact that vulnerabilities in computers are less likely to be totally eliminated, we want to study CYBER SECURITY because the more knowledgeable you are about the threats and you know how to secure yourself the less likely you can become a potential target for these cyber criminals because they would usually target less secure machines, less secure systems, and less secure people who are likely not aware about Cyber Security.
We have to keep in mind that cyber criminals are considered to be con-artist, these are people who uses technology to not just target computers but they target you as a person, they usually look for EXPLOITS in user behaviors. Usually these con-artist will target the person behind the devices and computers, they are directly ATTACKING YOU as a person. The more knowledgeable you are, the more secure you can become.
The term CYBER SECURITY is a term that can be used interchangeably with the term Information Security also known as InfoSec that deals with physical and digital data protection. Most attacks geared towards organizations and individuals are related exploits that are based from data or information that has been gathered about the victims.
Cyber Criminals are using the opportunity to exploit an individual or organization that are unfamiliar with cyber crime. For this same reason the study of CYBER SECURITY can help us find a deeper understanding of the different methodologies used by possible cyber criminals who would target you as a user of computer devices.
All of these being said, we want to better understand how computer works, how the internet works, and better understand how cyber criminals thinks and what are the type of exploits that they perform and use to execute an attack so that we can better defend against this type of attacks. Understanding the level of threat allows us to better prepare and protect ourselves from the atrocious elements that are present in the cyber world.
As a final remark, we would want to also become more familiar with the different security tools that we can use to protect ourselves, we also want to adapt better habits in using different computer devices so that we can secure and protect ourselves against cyber criminals.
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