Cyber Security: A Brief Overview
Introduction
Information Security and Cybersecurity in Nepal has gained importance recently as government begin plants to approach a new digitalized era of Nepal. Cyberattacks have negative impact on organization, employees, and consumers and security of their data. The attacker makes a gateway through data centers, cloud, internet, etc. to gain access to data and information. These attacks are threat to the information security of sensitive data. This brings severe damage to the reputation and finance of any organization or the victims.
The main challenge of information security is that attackers are never static. Attackers always apply new strategies to get intrusion into the cybersecurity system and do a malicious activity. The sectors which are at constant risks of data security are Internet Of Things, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrency, E-governments, and individuals. Cybersecurity : a brief overview is an important aspect of today’s technological world. Information Security and Cybersecurity in Nepal is also growing rapidly.
Information Security and Cybersecurity threats
The threat is occurs due to the presence of some malware. The use of weak credentials, poor encryption, mis-configuration, and the attack is usually carried out by use of an attacking technique. Such as social engineering, phishing, ransomware, DDOS, MitM, spyware, brute force attack. The other reasons to boom the cyber-attacks could be a fast change in technology and the presence of unidentified and undetected vulnerabilities on the system. So one of the countermeasures from these malicious attacks can be a practice of applying the suitable Cyber-security system within an organization.
A good defense ensures multiple layers of protection to computers, networks, programs, and data stored on these devices. Basically the Cyber-security mitigates the physical or digital damage to hardware, software, data assets, and from unauthorized use of technologies. The common techniques used to protect these attack includes firewalls, DNS filtering, malware protection, antivirus software, patching system, honey pots, intrusion detection system and email security solutions. There are also various tools to identify the vulnerabilities in a system. Similarly, it helps to overcome the drawback in security policies implemented by an organization. Moreover improve the risk assessment from the system.
Benefits of cyber Security
The benefits of using Cyber-security solutions is it provide comprehensive digital protection. This allows employees to connect internet minimizing risk to attacks and assist organizations to make more secure policies. The threats such as virus and network traffic gets mitigated after security measures are applied. This increases work productivity of an organization. The organization data remains more secured preserving confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. The implementation of cyber defense in organizations system ensures trust and reliability among clients and organizations. Use of these systems also help in tracing and early recovery from breach of data before the damage is too high.
