In the modern digital era, information of an individual as well as an Organization has to be stored and protected. It is not just a Technological necessity rather a fundamental thing which an individual should do. There has been a escalated or increased number of cyber threats as a result of advancement of technology, there is a need to protect all the information. So there is a need to have a cyber security training for all employees regardless of their seniority. Cyber attack means intentional attack or efforts to steal or alter or destroy any information of other person or organization. In today's world people are storing their confidential information in digital means, even an individual as well as an organization buy reliable cloud storage and store it; Cyber security is a practice of protecting internet connected systems from cyber attacks or threats.
Cyber security and teams associated with it:
Many organizations have an in-built teams to look into the cyber security system. In general there are three teams, Infrastructure team, Threat Management Team and Identity and Access Management team. The Infrastructure team look into the initial prevention of occurrence of such attack or crime, Threat Management Team looks into testing an application or website which the organization use or develop and the Identity and Access Management team looks takes care of the new intruder i.e. they block the new user into their cloud storage.
There are many threats which an Organization face, the top five threats which an organization face are, Social Engineering, Ransomware, Denial of Distribution of Service, Malware and Identity theft. Many Company fall prey for these type of cyber attacks and lose hefty sum of money.
Basic Cyber security measures to prevent or avoid cyber attacks or threats:
Verify Sender's details, Beware of the pressure tactics and educate people by providing regular training and updating the organization policy often according to the needs of the organization.
Encryption of data, Organization could encrypt the data while storing or in transit or to ensure that the key or the password for the data is in safe hands.
Organization could have various software to protect its data. Firewall is a network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing traffic in the network as per the established organization policies, in other words it act as a watchman or gatekeeper for your confidential information between your Computer and Internet.
Anti - virus software is a security program to prevent, detect, search and remove virus from computers and networks, spyware protection software.
Implementation of access controls & multi factor Authentication such as, combined authentication systems like biometrics, iris scan, finger print, OTP generation for having access to the Application.
Many Organization use VPN to secure the remote connection for protecting the organization information or data against data interception
Organization has to have an updated version of the software which they use, updates are provided to fix already existing bugs and drawbacks.
