Technical Security Known as Cyber Security: A Review

Abstract

The action of protecting our personal details and information system like networks, personal computers, and applications etc., with proper procedure and technological security measures is known as Cyber Security. Firewalls and antivirus software are essential for safeguarding personal details but not sufficient for the security. As our nation is continuously increasing its cyber infrastructure, we must educate our population about it. It is very important for the nation to introduce and establish the issue of cyber ethics, cyber safety and cyber security in educational system at very early age. An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a program used to find what happens or has happened during an execution and tries to find whether the computer has been misused or not. The advancement of information technology and internet services depends heavily on cyber security. Whenever we hear about “cybercrimes” the only word that strikes our mind is cyber security. Many crimes such as website phishing are also the result of illegal use of cyber knowledge by the users. In website phishing, a replica of trustful website is created to deceive user and their credentials. This study focuses on cyber security adopting new technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing etc.