Concept and uses of "cybersecurity"

Definition of cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is the process of protecting systems, networks, computers, and all the software and data they contain, where they are protected from various types of digital and cyber-attacks. Ensure that data are inaccessible and prevent any breakthrough.

 

Concept and uses of "cybersecurity"

Cybersecurity History

The development of cybersecurity science has gone through several stages during different periods which we review as follows:

Phase I: 1970s

At that time, the idea of computers, the Internet, and transferable data was still being created. Those technologies were primitive and easy to threaten. Therefore, several attempts were made to penetrate these devices into information, documentation, and others. Hence there is a need to find protection programs for sensitive and confidential information.

 

During this period, researcher Robert Thomas developed a computer program called Creeper and Thomas' Creeper program capable of crawling on the Tenex network. The program is considered the first computer virus developed in this period.

 

Then inventor Tom Linson was able to invent another program called Reaper and this program could go after and delete Creeper so this was the first form of antivirus software.

 

Phase II: 1980s

After Thomas' prototype of the virus, many researchers and those interested in developing more lethal and larger forms of viruses that can penetrate computer software and networks more broadly, efforts have also been intensified to find prevention of viruses and develop effective ways to protect against attacks.

 

During the 1980s several anti-virus programs were developed, the most important of which was Ultimate Virus Killer, after which inventions continued.

 

Phase III: 1990s

With the expansion of the Internet in the 1990s so far and its intervention in various fields and the increase in the number of users as the Web has become with huge user databases, some have been encouraged to try to steal users' data for different purposes.

 

Thus, as threats to people and companies increase, serious solutions have been sought to find a highly effective firewall, as well as to develop more effective antivirus protection and control programs.

 

Cybersecurity started as an independent science in 1972 through the network of advanced research projects (ARPANET).

 

Phase 4: Modern Day

Now that since the first decade of the twenty-first century, efforts have been intensified and ways of protecting information have evolved, as, of course, the means of threat have evolved, with professional organizations engaging in cyberattacks and professional technology.

 

This has prompted many governments around the world to develop a unified strategy to fight and clamp down on these organized gangs for cyberattacks and infringement of information.

 

Thus, efforts have continued and the science of information protection, or what has become known as cybersecurity has evolved until now, as cyberattacks and hacks continue, and in the future artificial intelligence technologies may be used to develop cybersecurity and create an effective mechanism for the total elimination of any potential cyberattacks.

The importance of cybersecurity

Cybersecurity offers a range of benefits that help secure and enhance the protection of information. The importance of cybersecurity is as follows:

• Preserving sensitive data and information and protecting it from theft and penetration
• Cybersecurity provides full protection of all information and data in all its forms and prevents access to it only by authorized persons. Cybersecurity protects information about various facilities such as banks, hospitals, universities, companies, etc.
• Cybersecurity uses electronic defense software to prevent incidents of theft of information and data including data and information related to intellectual property, protected health data and information PHI, and personal identification information PII.

 

Action to reduce cybercrime

Cybersecurity reduces cybercrime as well as reduces cyberattack-related activities. Of course, advances and dramatic technological development will undoubtedly be accompanied by an evolution in the means and techniques of cyberattacks.

Fighting viruses and tackling malware

Various institutions and companies are exposed to various attacks by harmful programs, aiming to either troll, hack, fraud, or cause damage to data and others. Cybersecurity helps protect against these programs and works to fight and eliminate them.

Protect websites and give them credibility

Cybersecurity protects online platforms and websites from cyberattacks. These attacks may cause difficulty in accessing websites or hacking and leaking their users' data, thereby damaging the reputation and credibility of these websites.

 

Through the incidents of these attacks, cybersecurity promotes the credibility of websites, ensures easy access to and safe use of these websites, and prevents any attacks or attempts to infiltrate these websites, thereby spying on other people's data and information, or violating the privacy of these websites for various purposes.

 

 

 

 Read Also: Computer Viruses 

 

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