5 Types of Cyber Security

Cyber security protects the integrity of a computer's Internet-connected systems, hardware, software, and data from cyber-attacks. Without a security plan, hackers can access your computer system and misuse your personal information, your customer information, business information, and more.

It seems that now everything depends on the Internet and computers - entertainment, communication, transportation, medicine, shopping, etc. Even banking institutions run their businesses online.

The realization that most of the world relies on the internet should prompt us to ask ourselves

• How much of my life depends on the internet?
• How much of my personal information is stored online?
• How much of my business is accessible through networks?
• How much of my customer information is accessible via networks?

With such a high dependency on computers, neglecting the likelihood of cybercrime in your business is extremely risky and potentially harmful to you, your business, your employees, and your customers.

Without a sense of security, your business is at high risk of cyber-attacks.

Below are the different types of cyber security you should know about. This article will help you create a solid foundation for a strong security strategy.

5 Main Types of Cyber Security

Critical Infrastructure Security:

Critical infrastructure security is the cyber-physical systems that modern societies rely on.

Common examples of critical infrastructure:

• Electrical network
• water purification
• Traffic lights
• Commercial centers
• Hospitals

Having the infrastructure of a power grid on the Internet makes it vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Organizations responsible for any critical infrastructure should exercise due diligence to understand vulnerabilities and protect their business from them. The safety and resilience of this critical infrastructure is vital to the safety and well-being of our society.

Organizations that are not responsible for critical infrastructure but still depend on it for part of their business should develop a contingency plan that assesses how an attack on the critical infrastructure on which they depend can affect them.

Application Security:

You should choose application security as one of several mandatory security measures that are taken to protect your systems. Application security uses software and hardware methods to deal with external threats that may arise at the development stage of an application.

Applications are much more accessible over networks, making the adoption of security measures during the development phase an imperative phase of the project.

Application Security Types:

• Antivirus programs
• Firewalls
• Encryption programs

This helps ensure that unauthorized access is prevented. Organizations can also detect and protect sensitive data assets through application-specific security processes attached to those data sets.

Network Security:

Because cyber security is concerned with external threats, network security protects against unauthorized intrusions of your internal networks due to malicious intent.

Network security ensures the security of internal networks by protecting the infrastructure and inhibiting access to it.

To help better manage network security monitoring, security teams are now using machine learning to signal abnormal traffic and warn of threats in real time. Network administrators continue to implement policies and procedures to prevent unauthorized access, modification and exploitation of the network.

Common examples of network security implementation:

• Extra logins
• New passwords
• Application security
• Antivirus programs
• Antispyware software
• Cryptography
• Firewalls
• Monitored Internet Access

Cloud Security:

Enhanced cyber security is one of the main reasons the cloud is taking over.

Cloud security is a software-based security tool that protects and monitors data on your cloud resources. Cloud providers are constantly creating and implementing new security tools to help business users better protect their data.

The myth surrounding cloud computing is that it is less secure than traditional approaches. People tend to believe that their data is safer when stored on servers and physical systems that you own and control. However, it has been proven through cloud security that control does not mean that security and accessibility matter more than the physical location of your data.

Alert's Logical Cloud Security Report found that users in the local environment suffer more incidents than those in service provider environments.

The report also concludes that…

• Local environment users experience an average of 61.4 attacks while;
• Customers in the service provider environment experienced an average of 27.8 attacks.

Cloud computing security is similar to traditional local data centers, with only the time and costs of maintaining large data facilities, and the risk of security breaches is minimal.

Internet of Things (IOT) Security:

IoT refers to a wide variety of critical and non-critical physical cyber systems such as devices, sensors, televisions, Wi-Fi routers, printers, and security cameras.

According to Bain & Company forecast...

• IoT's combined markets will grow to about $ 520 billion by 2021;
• More than double the $ 235 billion spent in 2017.

The legacy IoT data center, analytics, consumer devices, networks, systems, and connectors are the core technology in the IoT market.

IoT devices are often shipped in a vulnerable state and offer little or no security patch. This poses unique security challenges for all users.

A study by Bain found that

• Security is one of the biggest barriers to optimal adoption of IoT
• Companies would buy more IoT devices on average if security issues were resolved
• Companies are optimistic about IoT business value and growth

This requires vendors to invest in learning more about security challenges to suggest and implement more strategic solutions. Meanwhile, IoT devices are almost impossible to avoid, and finding an IT provider who can manage your security is your best option.

Not convinced? Do you remember the fundamental trick of Pied Piper in Season 5 of Silicon?

Pied Piper easily broke into a refrigerator distributor's IoT system and used it to increase the user numbers of its applications. Anything connected to the Internet is at risk.

If your company owns / uses products that are connected to the Internet anyway, it is important to implement defense strategies before the products are shipped or used! We know it's a widespread claim, but endangered devices are everywhere...

Overall, cyber security is essential to govern the conduct and ways of interacting with computer systems due to suspicious behavior. In a world where even our kitchen appliances and cars are connected to the Internet, cyber criminals have endless opportunities to cause chaos.

As hackers continue to adapt to new technologies, so do IT security experts whose primary focus is on keeping our data secure.

Take advantage of these 5 types of cyber security methods and protect your business from cyber-attacks.

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