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How cyber security works

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How cyber security works

Since the turn of the century, the digital wave has spread across the world. Almost everything we do involves a digital platform, and this has given rise to so many other platforms, like social media. As with every great innovation, there are some negatives to it, and in this case, the negative is hacking. Hacking is when someone gains unlawful access into a cyber-platform. It can be a website, an account or just a computer. Hacking allows the hacker, remote access to the platform and they can do whatever they like, often with negative effects. Fortunately, as the number of security breaches have increased, cyber security has also gotten better. With a lot of new features, our cyber activities can be protected from security breaches. Some of the ways through which cyber security protects us includes:

Security incident response platform: These platforms record all security breaches and threats that are unidentified, and forward these reports to cyber security agencies, so these threats can be studied and a way to deal with them can be discovered. They do this by monitoring for strange activities on websites, suspicious application activities on computers and suspicious login attempts in personal accounts. The security incident report platform is a corrective way of handling cyber security breaches, but the actions of these platform, gives rise to a preventive method of dealing with cyber security breaches, as the reports provide valuable information that can be used to help prevent such cyber-attacks.

Security automation: With the number of activities we carry out online, and the number of possible security breaches that we can potentially face, we cannot manually protect our systems or websites or our accounts. While privacy is important, security is more important, which is why cyber security is best left to experts. Security automation is when the care of all cyber security related issues is handled automatically, usually by computer programs or algorithms. No action is required on your part, rather than the permission granting to these applications and algorithms. With security automation, all potential threats and existing threats are handled without interrupting any tasks that you may be undergoing, and it automatically protects your privacy and internet usage, all discreetly and silently.

Security Automation and Orchestration: This operation is similar to security automation but with a rather distinct difference, it involves human actions. Security automation and orchestration involves the use of software programs and interviews to gather information about cyber security breaches and threats, with these reports going back to security agencies, and they try to find solutions to these cyber security issues. Security automation and orchestration is proving to be a very popular way to handle cyber security issues as information from only one source may not always be very reliable. The joint efforts of application and humans helps provide more insight into cyber security issues, and provide more information to security agencies, giving them a higher chance of finding a lasting solution to the breach.

All these developments help protect our computers and internet usage, granting you the ability to carry out your normal activities without the fear of being hacked.

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