What is cyber security?

The importance of Cyber Security 

Cyber Security is the practice or process of protecting computer devices, mobile devices, servers, networks, data, any confidential information, or even damage from malicious attacks. It may also be referred to as information technology security or electronic information security. 

The mechanism of cybersecurity confined the practice of securing not even personal or physical assets, but also digital ones.

It plays an important role for the military, financial organizations, medical organizations, government confidential information or data, or any personal individual entity data, and many more places on computers or other electronic devices.

Cyber Security expands the discipline to protecting confidential information or personal data and the systems used to process and store it.

Cyber Security is divided into various categories:

1. Computer Security

2. Network Security

3. Mobile Security

4. Information and Database Security

5. Cloud Security

6. Infrastructure Security

7. End-user behavior  

Types of Cyber Attacks:

• 1. Denial of Service Attack (DoS)

• 2. Malware

• 3. Man-in-the-middle Attack.

• 4. Phishing.

• 5. Spoofing.

• 6. Ransomware.

• 7. Spamming.
• 8. Eavesdropping Attack.
• 9. Drive- by-Attack.
• 10. Password Attack.
• 11. Cross-site scripting (XSS).
• 12. SQL Injection.

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