Impact of Cyber Threats
- A large amount of financial fraud has been seen in the growing past years that has been made through hacking, identity theft and money scams. These financial losses haven’t only affected the lives of million of people but also had given a very bad impact on the country’s economy.
- The most cyber threats are made to people to interrupt their privacy and steal their personal and professional data. This is a serious matter of concern because it has made people chose the wrong track for their future. The breach in privacy left them no choice than choosing the wrong path and they are asked to do illegal jobs in return.
- Due to increase in cyber-attacks and threats to people, the government need to spend more on cybersecurity measures day by day which is creating a new problem to government.
- The increase in cyber threats have also made the loss of trust between people, whether it is between a boss or employee to the consumer and shareholder of the company which causes a huge reputation damage and reduce the market value of both the companies and governments.
- Their is a regular pressure on the government about the cyber threats due to which strict data protection laws are implemented for the better cybersecurity practices of the people and the companies. This increases the costs of making new organizations and pay the government for them.
What is Cyber Security Awareness?
Cyber Security Awareness is a method to read the types of threats and implement the protection against such threats from the internet to protect our privacy and secure our data. Internet is used by us on regular basis and we all are aware of the security threats on the internet. We need to protect our privacy from such cyber attacks.
As the world of cyber is getting huge, the threats to us also increases on the regular basis and we need to be protective against such attacks. The internet and connectivity devices are making our life easier, but they also bring danger online.
A cyber security awareness is an important to protect our data from the cyber attacks, and unknown login. We need to get aware from the online threats like phishing and malware that cybercriminals use to steal our data. We need to identify and avoid frauds that are conducted online, via email, or on social media.