24/03/2020
It’s time to get acquainted with the main topic of our Summer ELSA Law School: cybersecurity! 📱👮♂️
Cybersecurity (computer security or information technology security) is a practice of protecting systems, networks, servers and programs from malicious attacks 🛡 These cyber attacks are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information. Data theft, disruption of online services or software damage are only a few examples of such attacks. They can extort money from users or interrupt normal business processes.
Implementing effective cybersecurity measures is particularly challenging today due to the variety of devices we use on the daily basis - computers, smartphones smartwatches, just to name a few. Attackers are becoming more and more innovative 📱💻 ⌚️
The global cyber threat continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with a rising number of data breaches every year. A report by Risk Based Security revealed that a shocking 7.9 billion records have been exposed by data breaches in the first nine months of 2019 alone. This figure is more than double (112%) the number of records exposed in the same period in 2018 📈
A strong cyber security system has multiple layers of protection spread across computers, devices, networks and programs. But a strong cyber security system does not solely rely on cyber defense technology - it also relies on people making smart cyber defense choices 🤓 That’s why it is important to know how to help defend yourself against cyber threats, and how to recognize and avoid threats before they infiltrate your network or devices.
