According to Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report, global internet users have touched 3.8 billion which is more than half of the world’s population. India, the second largest contributor, accounts to 12 percent of the global internet user base. Moreover, in India, the large internet user base is backed by proliferation of affordable smartphones, access …
Tag: Cyber Security
Cyber Security Policy is a Must
People are increasingly shopping, banking, and entertaining online, which requires them to share their personal information – phone numbers, addresses, credit card details, and so forth. This makes both people and businesses vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In time to come, managing privacy will be the new normal, like paying electricity bills, paying taxes, securing data, etc. …
Challenges in Cyber Security
Cybersecurity in its early avatar was more about protecting people and organizations from traditional threats such as malware, social engineering attacks, website defacing, hacktivism, etc. In the early days the hackers were also not evolved but with changing technology and emergence of cybercriminal network in the last few years cybercrime has witnessed increased sophistication and …
India: A Lucrative Cyber Security Market
Cyber-attacks have become a regular phenomenon globally and India is no exception to it. We are experiencing new threats every day with a potential cost to the economy that cannot be fathomed. It’s not surprising that organizations are taking cybersecurity seriously, with a large portion of their budget going into implementing measures to fight cyber-attacks. …
Cyber Security Ecosystem
In the last two decades, technology has undergone a paradigm shift. The new age technology has played the role of an enabler in improving the way business is performed. We all know that technology in all shape and size has its own set of advantages and challenges. On the one hand it enables businesses like …
Cybersecurity Culture
Cybersecurity should no longer be viewed as a function of information technology alone. The review of cyber security as a function should move under COO or CEO. It needs to form an integral part of culture and strategy of the organization. It should be reflected in every facet of the organization, right from the strategy …
Cyber Security: An Introduction
Rabindranath Choubey, a Mathematics teacher in Ranchi called us a few days back and updated that for years Facebook was involved in a data breach. This data breach compromised at least 50 million users’ personal data. This vulnerability was exposed to Facebook in July 2017, but Facebook only became aware of it in September 2018 …