Cyber-evangelist and former Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity official, Michael Echols’ latest book, Secure Cyber Life 978-1-95-008855-3 is an informative guide on all things about cybersecurity. As technology advances, so does the ever-present threat of falling victim to a cybercrime. Almost every aspect of human life has transformed into a digital platform. All our data is uploaded and stored in the cyberspace, which, according to Echols is an extremely unsafe place unless we have the right type of system blocking off hackers and scammers.
In the book, Echols writes about the different types of cyber-attacks and hackers, as well as the importance of risk management, especially if you are running a big company. The government is not doing much to fight against the growing threat of cyber-attacks. Our data is constantly exposed for criminals to steal unless we take measures to retain and protect our sensitive information. With Secure Cyber Life, Echols guides us through just that. But before grabbing your copy of the book, here are the 5 types of cybersecurity by Mindcore:
1. Critical infrastructure security:
Critical infrastructure security consists of the cyber-physical systems that modern societies rely on.
Having the infrastructure of an electricity grid on the internet makes it vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Organizations with responsibility for any critical infrastructures should perform due diligence to understand the vulnerabilities and protect their business against them. The security and resilience of this critical infrastructure are vital to our society’s safety and well-being.
2. Application security:
You should choose application security as one of the several must-have security measures adopted to protect your systems. Application security uses software and hardware methods to tackle external threats that can arise in the development stage of an application.
3. Network security:
As cybersecurity is concerned with outside threats, network security guards against the unauthorized intrusion of your internal networks due to malicious intent.
Network security ensures that internal networks are secure by protecting the infrastructure and inhibiting access to it.
To help better manage network security monitoring, security teams are now using machine learning to flag abnormal traffic and alert to threats in real-time. Network administrators continue to implement policies and procedures to prevent unauthorized access, modification, and exploitation of the network.
4. Cloud security:
Improved cybersecurity is one of the main reasons why the cloud is taking over.
Cloud security is a software-based security tool that protects and monitors the data in your cloud resources. Cloud providers are constantly creating and implementing new security tools to help enterprise users better secure their data.
5. Internet of things (IoT) security
IoT refers to a wide variety of critical and non-critical cyber-physical systems, like appliances, sensors, televisions, wifi routers, printers, and security cameras.IoT’s data center, analytics, consumer devices, networks, legacy embedded systems, and connectors are the core technology of the IoT market. IoT devices are frequently sent in a vulnerable state and offer little to no security patching. This poses unique security challenges for all users.
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