Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay What Is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is referred to as the body of technologies and practices used to protect networks, data, and programs from attacks or unauthorized access. As the world is slowly becoming utterly dependent on technology, cybersecurity is required to safeguard all the information that travels through the internet. For instance, the digital economy accounted for 6.9 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, or $1.35 trillion, in 2017, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The government, military, and other organizations collect data from us, which might have sensitive information that can negatively empower unauthorized access. Unauthorized access to any device can use all your company’s sensitive data and business, and can also cause serious devastation. Cybersecurity is, therefore, essential to protect all the sensitive data of your company or a business. Cybercrime has increased nowadays, as many people do not have a secure network connection, making it easily accessible by cyber attackers. The World Economic Forum reports that in 2019, four new malware samples were created every second. This lack of a secure network has given cybercriminals the undue advantage to attack a company’s employees and get access to the company’s database. …
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How to Win the Ever-Changing Threats of the Cyberwar
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Based on the volume, frequency, and dastardness of attacks launched by cybercriminals, it is no longer a hidden fact that the world is in for a cyberwar. The magnitude of the war has made it absolutely imperative that we must embark on building nation-level defenses to fight cyberwar. It may have been a bit late already but it can never be an overstatement to say that nation-states should put their acts together, fashion out well-articulated cyber defense measures to be able to protect themselves from the most advanced threats ever seen. Looking at the strategies cybercriminals have employed in launching attacks we have experienced so far, we may be at the early stages yet. It is a cyberwar Cyber threats and cyberattacks did not just start to manifest yesterday, however, the worldwide gruesome WannaCry and NotPeyta ransomware attacks of 2017, brought cyberattacks to a new level altogether. As if that were not a notification that we the world is grappling with something very mammoth, the expanding levels of malware-related data breaches in 2018, are sheer warnings and realities of the increasingly critical, vulnerable, and fast-developing world of cybercrime we all live and conduct business activities in. Governments, individuals,…
How Proxies Can Up Your Competitive Advantage
As the world has become a global village and we now operate a borderless market, both your online and offline businesses are in for the stiff competition and the only way to up your competitive advantage is to seek out innovative ways to stay relevant. With proxies as a third-party server, however, you can effectively ward off a lot of the challenges that can run down your business. A proxy server also referred to as proxy or application-level gateway is a computer that works by intercepting connections between sender and receiver. With a proxy in place, all your organization’s data will be fed in through one port and are forwarded to the rest of the network via another port. With the advancement in technology affording businesses the necessary tech-savviness to upgrade their performances, products, services, and quality, you must not be caught on the sidelines. So, what roles can proxies play in upping your competitive advantage? 1. Insurance against attacks One thing that will readily bring your business crumpling is a cyberattack. The effects can be so devastating that you must go all the way to ensure that you are protected. To show how dreadful cyberattacks can be, a Gallup…
How to Protect Your Personal Data With VPN
We constantly wake up to news of fresh online security scares and this makes it absolutely compulsory that you must seek means of ensuring that your personal data is protected. The Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout annual end-of-year data breach report, revealed a 126% increase in exposed consumer’s personal data and 1.68 billion email-related credentials. In Also very disturbing is the February report that hackers were distributing a “megaleak” among themselves of more than 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords. These were personal data obtained in recent years as part of database breaches from top-notch sites such as Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Yahoo among others. You still must not undermine the fact that hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. If you take into consideration the mammoth size of cybercrimes and the sophistication of cybercriminals you may want to believe that taking steps to protect yourself online might seem like a fool’s errand. But it’s a task that must be necessarily accomplished. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, are services that route your online traffic through an encrypted server so you can browse safely and anonymously on…