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Cyber Security has become well known term in recent years

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What is Cyber Security?
Cyber security has become a well-known term in recent years. With most people spending a large part of their day online, communicating through media such as email and social media and conducting their banking and shopping online, it’s not surprising that risks come with the digitization of all your data. But what exactly is cyber security? What constitutes a cyber-attack? Who are the cyber criminals? And who is at risk?

Information Security
Cyber security is essentially a new term for information security; the protection of vital information. Information security has, however, been around for decades prompting many to ask what is new about cyber security? In today’s age, cyber security refers to more than simply protecting information. There is now an industrial scale of cyber espionage. The only thing that is new about cyber security is that there is more information moving around faster in cyber space that there ever was when it could only be paper based, but it is still all about preventing people from accessing information they have no right to and using it for nefarious purposes. It is more another stage in a continuum of dealing with information complexities. Think of it in terms of moving from handwriting to typewriter to telegraph to telephone, tele faxes and recording devices and now to cyber space. It is the volume and complexity that has increased, not the basic concept of information protection and espionage for industrial and military purposes. But with the increased volume, there is also the possibility of causing more harm to more people. Cyber space has been militarized. There is a large rise in hacktivism (the use of computer hacking for political activism), with large swaths of cyber-crime and a dependence on the internet with the proliferation of devices.

Why is cyber security important?
Most people have one password for all their accounts and think of simple identity theft, malware or spam emails when they think about cyber security. Although identity theft is no laughing matter, there are far more serious and important threats in today’s world. The internet was never designed to be secure and trying to retrofit security is proving very difficult indeed. Modern cars are full of computers with some having their own individual IP addresses. This means that your car can be hacked and accessed by a cyber-attacker. With access to your car’s computer, the attacker could turn off your car whilst overtaking on the motorway or simply mess with your navigation sending you off course. Furthermore most fridges, simple kitchen appliances have an IP address. This means that a cyber-attacker can access your fridge’s logs and besides changing the temperature they can work out what times you are in your home, and even figure out if you are away on holiday. Are you scared now? You should be.