Cybersecurity for individuals.

Believe it or not, we need to be more concern from defending ourselves of the cyber world than from conventional crime. The cyber crime can harm you more badly than you have ever imagined. As the use of computer technologies becomes more and more deeply and broadly integrated into our daily lives, we then become more and more dependent on it. But this dependency can then makes us more vulnerable if technology can not protect our sensitive information.

Our day to day life, economic and financial exuberance, and national security depend on a stable, secure, safe, and strong cyberspace.

Cyberspace and its underlying systems and infrastructure are vulnerable to a broad range of risk coming from both physical and online cyber threats. Sophisticated and motivated cyber hackers, actors and nation-states exploit vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to both information and money and are seriously developing capabilities to disrupt, stop, destroy, or threaten the delivery of essential daily services.

A broad range of traditional and conventional crimes are now being carried out through cyberspace. This surprisingly includes creation and spreading of child pornography and child exploitation conspiracies, banking and financial fraud, intellectual property violations, and many other crimes, all of which have substantial human and monetary consequences. Our lack of basic computer knowledge and real sensitivity towards the awareness of the importance of protecting ourselves in the vulnerable cyber world is more critical.

Digital Cyber world is particularly difficult to secure due to a many variable and number of factors. The unethical hackers and ability of vicious actors to operate from anywhere in the world can create limitations for law enforcement agencies to catch them and punish them.

Most critical functions, systems, and infrastructure are now managed and integrated through internet and computer systems but at the same time they pose threat from advanced and sophisticated attack and intrusion from these rouge elements and that is the serious risk.

That is why protecting the sensitive information has become a critical job for a government as well as of the institutions. That’s why cyber security is shared the responsibility of everyone. We each have to do our part to keep the internet safe and secure. Hence we all have to collectively take simple steps every day. So at the same time, we too have to do diligence to take care of our own critical information. We too have to secure our home network, wi-fi, routers, home computers so we can avoid such intrusion in our information. We too have to keep our password very strong and keep changing it at a certain interval. We too have to keep anti-virus suite on the computer on and always keep it on real time protection. Set alerts and notification on your bank accounts, credit card(s) account(s) and in other financial accounts, so any suspicious transactions can be notified to avoid any financial loss to you.

Cybersecurity problems are everywhere i.e. It can be in your smartphone, laptop, home network, TV, GPS, power grid, dam, airports, websites, bank accounts, Cars, home security systems etc. Lately, since couple of years, hackers are more active and attacking various important system with more sophistication over and over again. If we are not prepared to defend then our future is worrisome.

Before you connect, post and share anything on the internet,

• Slow down,
• Think

And Then 

• Connect online.