What is Cybersecurity?

What is Cybersecurity?

In this article you will get know about the overview definition of cybersecurity. This article is beginner friendly. Nowadays the information is increasing in the internet which is somewhere good and somewhere bad too, but there are some people who are stealing this information to harass, to exploit people. Stealing information is increasing so, for protecting this Cybersecurity people come into frame. This is where cybersecurity came so, let's know about this.

Cybersecurity, if we break this word so, it has two parts "CYBER" and "SECURITY". Cyber means something which is related to Computer, Technology, Virtual Reality. Security means to protect something like you put a password in your cellphones.  Both together means to protect the information which is on internet. In other words, it is the way to protect interconnected-systems including hardware, software and data from bad people. Cybersecurity helps us to ensure purity, privacy and availability of information and prevents unauthorized access of resources. 

There are many different domains in cybersecurity like Network Security, Data Security, Application Security, Risk management and many more. There are some attacks (which is in the form of code) which can come in many forms such as malware, phishing attacks, ransomware, and DDoS attack apart from this there many attacks which happed on daily basis.

 The attacks which came in many forms that is known as threat, which is harmful for any system. For these threats, many organizations and individuals can implement a many measures to protect their systems such as regular updating softwares, use strong passwords, educating/aware yourself as well as other people. 

So, this is the information about cybersecurity. Hopefully you get some idea and some information from this article.