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The World of Cyber Security: - Coggle Diagram
The World of Cyber Security:
What is cyber security?
Cyber security is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, programs, and data from digital attacks, damage, or unauthorized access.
It involves using technologies, processes, and human awareness to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and digital systems against malicious actors who aim to steal data, disrupt services, or extort money.
It protects against a variety of digital threats and aims to safeguard several digital assets
How to protect personal data:
Personal data protection involves legal and technical measures to safeguard individuals' information, ensuring its privacy, integrity, and availability.
Key principles, such as those in the UK GDPR, include lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, and integrity/confidentiality.
Install anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, and a firewall. For additional protection, you may want to consider cyber insurance, which can keep you and your family safe if you fall victim to a cyberattack.
Your online identity
It is the collection of data online that makes you it includes things like your email, addresses, photos, phone number, etc.
Your online identity is the collection of data that represents you on the internet, encompassing everything from personal information and interactions to how you are perceived and how online services identify you.
. Managing this identity is crucial for personal, academic, and professional success, as it influences opportunities and can be a target for those seeking to compromise it.
What do hackers want?
Seeking money by stealing data to sell on the dark web, conducting fraud, or holding systems for ransom.
Other common motivations include industrial or political espionage, personal revenge, the desire for notoriety and recognition.
Hackers want various things, but primarily they are motivated by financial gain.
Identity theft
Such as opening new financial accounts, making unauthorized purchases, or obtaining government benefits in the victim's name.
Thieves may steal information from mail, online accounts, data breaches, or by directly tricking the victim. Warning signs include bills for items you didn't buy, unexpected debt collection letters, or being denied credit.
Identity theft is the crime of using another person's personal information without their permission to commit fraud or other criminal acts.
Who else wants my data?
This information is valuable for targeted ads, business intelligence, and criminal activities like identity theft
Many groups want your data, including businesses (for advertising and market research), governments (for law enforcement and security), hackers (for financial gain or malicious attacks), and even individual stalkers or malicious people.
To protect your data, use strong passwords, enable two-factor authentication, limit app permissions, and be cautious about sharing personal details online.
Organisational data
Including details like its name, type, address, internal processes, and relationships with other entities.
It is used for market intelligence, segmentation, and tracking key events like mergers, new hires, and market trends.
Organizational data, also known as firm graphic data, refers to the fundamental characteristics, structures, and processes of an organization
Cyberwarfare
It can involve activities like computer viruses, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, propaganda, psychological manipulation, and economic warfare.
Its goal is to achieve strategic objectives, potentially including causing physical harm or influencing public opinion.
Cyber warfare is the use of cyberattacks by one nation-state or organization against another's computer systems and networks to cause damage, disrupt vital infrastructure, or conduct espionage.
Cyber attackers
Usually, the attacker seeks some type of benefit from disrupting the victim's network.
An Attacker is person, group or entity that attempts to access, extract, insert, reveal, influence, delete, or disclose another party's data without prior authorization or permission.
A cyberattack is a malicious and deliberate attempt by an individual or organization to breach the information system of another individual or organization