Essays on Cyber Security

A cyber attack is an attack initiated from a computer against a website, computer system or individual computer that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the computer or information stored on it. Cyber attacks take many forms, including: Gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorized...

Cyber security or information technology security are the techniques of protecting computers, networks, programs and data from unauthorized access or attacks that are aimed for exploitation. There are four types of security controls access, flow, inference, and cryptographic complement each other. These all four types...

In today’s growing word cybersecurity is very necessary because, As technology provides many facilities to use it also some effects like security threats and cyber attacks. To protect the data from hankering and the cyber attacks we will require the cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a process...

A risk-focused future No one can deny that keeping up with the pace of change in this field is challenging at best, and can, at worst, feel impossible. As soon as you feel like you have a good handle on the major threats to your...

The main focus of this venture is an overview of machine learning and data mining strategies for cyber analytics in aid of intrusion detection.ML helps the computer to determine without being exactly programmed whereas DM explores the earlier important and unimportant properties of data. Cyber...

Virus, malware, ransomware, phishing… What is all this? Where did it come from? Why do we even have this? In 1989, the birth of one of the deadliest and unwanted disease for a computer, the first worm was created by Robert Morris (Julian, Ted, and...

With the plethora of advancements in the science and technology even an iota of bug can crumble down the strongest pillars of security. Digital security is imperative since government, military, corporate, budgetary, and restorative associations gather, process, and store exceptional measures of information on PCs...

The digital world is in consistent fight for change – particularly in the security field. Taking in contemplations the disclosures from Edward Snowden about the mass observation programs led by the legislative specialists, the quantity of clients that brought issues to light is continually expanding....

There are many reasons why it is extremely difficult for the existing conventional law to manage the challenges existing along with cyberspace. Some of the reasons have been discussed as follows: Cyberspace is an incorporeal dimension which cannot be governed and regulate using conventional law....

“India absorbs and outlasts its conquerors Indian’s say. But…I wonder whether intellectually for a thousand years, India had not always retreated before the conquerors and whether in its periods of apparent revival, India had not only been making itself archaic again, intellectually smaller, always vulnerable”...

According to IBM’s “2014 Cyber SecurityIntelligence Index” 95 percent of all securityincidents involve human error. A lot of the security incidents are dueto social engineering. Examples of this arehumans clicking on links (phishing), openingunknown attachments or entering personalor confidential information into a seeminglyfriendly and familiar...

Battles are moving away from the use of guns and tanks, rather to the use of weaponized cyberattacks to shut down a whole city. A recent example is the Ukrainian cyberattack in 2018 which goes to show how critical cyber warfare is in the contemporary...

There’s a growing problem with rapid increase in volume of data, experience of the cyber attackers and lack of experienced experts in cyber security. We need a new approach to be in the race with modern array security threats. How do we deal with these...

Several years ago, creating a Cybersecure home was simple; most homes consisted of nothing more than a wireless network and several computers. Today, technology has become far more complex and is integrated into every part of our lives, from mobile devices and gaming consoles to...

A most recent cyber attack that captured the attention of America’s federal agents was the hacker’s targeting of the US Gas Pipelines. The article reports this cyber incident in Dan Gunderman’s issue of the 4th of June 2018. According to the Incident of the Week,...

Cyber Warfare can be classed as the mechanics of a specific attack which could be politically or financially motivated within the digital sphere. These attacks can be originated from any digital device such as a mobile telephone, pc or any other digital devices. The reason...

Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni defines cyberwarfare as “deliberate and hostile use by a state of a cyber weapon with the intention of causing injury or death to persons, and/or to significantly disrupt, damage, or destroy another state’s strategic assets or critical national infrastructure. ” (Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, 2018)What would...

Bullying is an act of harassment that can take various forms; verbal, physical, and cyber. Bullying or harassment in general occurs in person and on the internet. All present differently, but all are very harmful. 90% of students from grades 4-8 have been harassed or...

The internet plays a huge role in our lives, it is used to let us do and access things easily. The internet is created to help us do our daily tasks, like searching for information, an address, search for books, or even reaching out to...