‘ If you spend more on coffee than on IT, you will be hacked ‘’

Is it worth naming us as citizens of digitalized India? How can we define it? Let's take an example, the cashless economy is being promoted after the country’s head announced the demonetization. Digital wallet trend is increased, along with this online transaction, rewards, cashback, offers provided by digital companies ignite us to do so. Such as Paytm, Phonepay, Google pay, Amazon pay like companies are hereby controlling the paperless economy of our digital India. But the question which came to our attention is are we ready to fight the cyberattacks, are we aware of cyber security? What is it? It is defined as protecting the data, networks, programs, and other information from unauthorized access, destruction, or change. The rapid development of technology is propelling us to make our life accustomed to computers, mobiles. With growing internet use the cyber security is a major concern. In today's world, cyber security is very important because of some security threats and cyber-attacks. For data protection, many companies develop software, this software protects the data. After the USA, China, India has the highest number of internet users. I believe everything created by humans can also be destroyed by humans too. We have created the technology that appears to be smarter than us but if it overpowers us it proved to be lethal.


According to the statistics, the average American spends 10 hours per day using technology, whether it be a cell phone or tablet, that is more than 40 hours a week online. We think that we are safe, but part of living in the 21st century with this man-made technology makes us more vulnerable.


Benefits of cyber security

• Protects data from unauthorized access.
• Improves information security and management.
• Better company credentials with better security
• First recovery time in case of violation.

Types of cyber attacks

• Web hijacking
• Cyber stocking
• Attack service
• Virus attack
• Catching fish
• Ransomware
• Malware
• Social engineering

Measures for cyber security

• A computer user should use a firewall
• Users should install antivirus
• Users should shop only from a secured website
• The user should develop a strong password
• Check the security setting on Facebook
• Users should be cautious regarding using public wi-fi, hotspots
• Avoid conducting financial transactions.
• Users should be careful while giving personal information like name, address, phone number

Needs for cyber security

The cost of a security breach can be very high for an organization. It not only causes financial damages but affects the reputation of the firm as well. Clients or customers upon knowing a breach must take some preventive measures to sort things out immediately. Cybercrime may occur directly i.e. targeting the computer directly or by spreading computer viruses. The easy availability of hacking tools on the internet has made cyberattacks, even more, stronger, these tools getting updated day by day and become more lethal to deal with it and so are people using them.

With growing internet penetration, cyber protection is among the biggest requisite of the world as cyber threats are extremely dangerous on nations protection hence the government formulate National cyber safety policy-2013 and by cyber swachhata kendra in 2017. Hence security systems are needed to be constantly updated in an attempt to thwart the increasing amount of complex cyber-attacks. ’Awareness” must be created among the citizens in order to avoid some mishaps. Hence it is advisable for the government to learn how more awareness among masses, users should remain vigilant about protecting data. Better cyber security laws by the government need to be implemented like National Cyber Security Policy 2013 Latest SC instruction to government for data privacy.

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