CYBER SECURITY- “A NECESSITY IN TODAY’S ERA”.

CYBER SECURITY- “A NECESSITY IN TODAY’S ERA”.

Today, in the 21^st century everything is on the internet. We can get to know about anyone to everyone from the internet.  But what about its security?

It is right to say that today we are living in a cyber world where more than physical security cybersecurity is needed.

We may save our pieces of jewelry and documents by keeping them in lockups, but what about the information on the internet.

Today there are so many social networking platforms where people socialize, post their photos. In fact, it has become a status symbol to post such information and photos on the internet nowadays.

Cybercrime is the crime that is committed on the internet by using users’ confidential information from various media platform for any illegal purpose and cyber security is protecting our systems, mobiles, and us from such crimes.

In the last few years the rate of cybercrimes has increased tremendously and it's mainly the reason for is lack of awareness and knowledge among people.

Cyberspace is good but we should always remember to take the necessary steps to protect our data because prevention is always better than cure. We should know when and what details we should post on the internet.

Today as the globalization is increasing so as our relations and contacts with other people, whom we had never met before too, but this is where we mistake. We should never share any personal details with anyone on the internet.

There are many ways to convey crimes on the internet. Hackers can even blackmail the culprit by using their data which can even force them to suicide. It may be a number for us but for hackers, it can be our whole information. We log in to so many sites which ask for our information and to access our contacts and media gallery but we should be aware to fill our information as it can leak our confidential information. Even the popular website like Facebook, LinkedIn is not safe for our data.

There are many ways to commit cybercrimes like phishing, bullying, installing spyware, Trojan horse, etc which can affect our computer and our personal information.

In a recent survey it has been  found that India ranked 2^nd as the victim of cyber attacks and the main reason behind this is lack of knowledge, updates with people.     

We can secure our data by following the correct measures like we should  never post images of our recent visits or live visits, we should use strong passwords and should never repeat them anywhere, we should never read or reply to spam messages, we should not share our any personal information especially our account details. While using computers we should always maintain proper disk cleanup, run antivirus software in the background and should never insert pen drives that may have viruses in them.

Our government have launched many awareness programs like Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Center)  a new desktop and mobile security solution for cybersecurity in India, educating people  about types of cyber attacks and how to deal with them, including chapters on cybersecurity to aware the students, developing highly secured systems for government works.