Government and private sectors
One of the biggest challenges that many government and private agencies face today is that of cybersecurity. Nowadays, almost every transaction carried out by a government, or a private agency is backed up by a system in one form or another. This has given rise to the need for securing the data stored in them, as well as ensuring its safety when it is being transferred to another person. Many types of external attacks might end up compromising this data, which is mostly private. These attacks can be in the form of malware attacks, botware attacks, worms, denial of service attacks, phishing attempts, social engineering, and others. These attacks can be prevented by a few precautionary measures, such as installing antivirus software in the system, scanning the system regularly for viruses, installing Intruder Detection Systems (IDS and Intruder Prevention System (IPS), and by using secured network while transferring private data, among others.
- Government and private sectors today are mostly unsuccessful in providing cybersecurity. As a result of this, much valuable data is being compromised when an external attacker attacks a system and siphons it off. The attack can be in the form of malware attacks, viruses, bot attacks, denial of service, phishing attempts, among various other techniques. Every year, cyber-attacks result in the compromise of a massive chunk of data that is stored in the system or is being transferred through an unsecured channel of communication. This can be prevented by scanning the system regularly, using a secure channel to transfer sensitive bits of data, setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), using strong passwords for login which could be difficult to guess in case of a social engineering attempt, ignoring any potential message or phone calls demanding to reveal private information, avoiding public networks for sending and receiving any data, and other various techniques that would ensure the safety and security of the said data.