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Cybersecurity threats pose a special risk to organizations because they have the potential to cause large financial losses, harm to a company’s brand, and interruptions of operation.
QUESTION!!
What is a Cybersecurity Threat?
A Cybersecurity Threat refers to any situation or occurrence that can have negative consequences
for a business’s operation, functions, brand, reputation, or perceived image.
Here are the Top 5 Cybersecurity
Threats and Solutions Designed to protect digital systems and data from attacks.⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Data Breaches:
A data breach comes as a result of a cyber attack that allows cybercriminals to gain unauthorized entry to a computer system or network
and steal the private, sensitive, or confidential personal and financial data of the customers.
These breaches have evolved from mere cybersecurity issues to
instigators of financial losses, reputational damages,
and profound erosion of customers' trust.
Data breaches are caused by weak and stolen passwords, physical attacks, insider threats due to the misuse of privileged access, etc.
How To Prevent Data Breaches
- Software updates:
Running regular software updates is vital in preventing data breaches.
If you don’t update the software you will have
security weaknesses in the program that can be misused by hackers.
Here is a guide to updating the Microsoft Windows
- Password hygiene
Each of your online accounts should have a strong, complicated, and unique password.
Password reckoning or guessing is another method used by Cybercriminals.
Weak, short, and Reused passwords are helpless to guessing.
Change Password Regularly.
- Identify All Sensitive data
Security professional argue that you can’t secure what you do not know you have.
Identify areas that store, transmit, collect, and process your sensitive data.
- Educate your employees:
It’s important to Educate your employees.
You can enlighten them by helping them understand how to create strong passwords, how often they should change passwords
and help them site, dodge, and report scams, etc
2. Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks
This is a cyber attack in which a threat actor puts his or herself in between two parties: the user and the application,
to intercept their communication and data exchanges and use them for opposing goals like making unauthorized buys and hacking.
Here are a few signs that indicate an MITM attack when browsing a website
How to prevent Man-in-the-Middle attacks
- VPN
A virtual Private Network is a digital connection between your computer and a remote server owned by a VPN provider that encrypts your personal data and masks your IP Address.
VPNs are one of the ways to protect corporate data and manage users' access to that data.
2. Social Engineering
Social engineering is a tactic that manipulates people to share
information they should not share, visit websites they should not visit,
download software they should not download, and send money to hoods.
How to Prevent Social Engineering Attacks
- Check the source
Take some time to think about where the communication is coming from,
DO NOT TRUST IT BLINDLY.
For instance, if you do not know the sender of an email, there is no need to open the email.
If an email has errors then it is definitely fake.
- Spam filters:
These are algorithms designed to detect or Identify undesired, dangerous, and infected emails.
Create a Spam filter so you can avoid getting infected emails and letting a link Determine where you arrive.
Here is a guide on how to Create a Spam filter
In Conclusion,
it is essential to stay updated on cybersecurity threats and their solutions
as Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated, and these threats are frequently developing.
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