Why Is Cyber Security So Important?
Over the past few years, new hacking threats have emerged. With these threats comes a worldwide increase in concern over cyber security. However, what is cyber security? According to BI Intelligence, it is technologies and processes that protect IT assets from cyber attacks. Hackers are able to penetrate governments and enterprises through their IT infrastructure. The rapid growth of mobile devices only increases one's exposure to hackers.
Top 5 Types of Attacks:
- Zero-Day Attacks– Software vulnerabilities are targeted that have yet to be discovered and protected.
- Cloud-Data Leakage– When employees upload sensitive company or personal information to cloud services such as Dropbox.
- Mobile Malware– Designed to target the operating systems on mobile devices and allow hackers to steal data.
- Targeted Attacks– Sometimes a variety of hacking methods are used simultaneously to attack a person or organization.
- SQL injection– An attack method allowing hackers to execute malicious code onto servers where they can steal or delete data.
Top 5 Areas of Protections:
- Network Defenses– Keeping hackers from entering corporate networks to find and steal data.
- Endpoint and Mobile Device Protection– Prevent hackers from compromising individual devices.
- Data in Motion Defenses– Protecting data when it's in the process of being sent from one device to another.
- Data At Rest Defenses– Protecting data when it's stored in a corporate database.
- Analysis & Correlation– Helps monitor the flow of data through corporate networks and databases to locate suspicious activity.
*Courtesy of BusinessInsider.com
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