Shikha SaxenaDec 22 · 3 min read

Secure workplace digital assets proactively

Cybersecurity is the topic of concern and requires awareness and security measures from individuals in the field. Cybersecurity: protecting workplace from cyberattack is a joint effort. Professionals and users of digital assets from all organizations and walks of life, should understand the need of securing online data from fishing acts and cyberattacks and contribute to make cybersecurity a reality. Strictly favor cybersecurity and stand in opposition of compromised data. Support conditions to create a safe working environment!

What is Cybersecurity?

With the increasing demand to use, store, transfer and manage data, use internet, in organizations to work from home, remote working and increasing dependencies on cyber systems for day to day activities, it is necessary to understand the rules, regulations, governance and policies to protect data from being compromised or used in wrong way.

Cybersecurity is the use or application of technologies, networks and systems to secure and protect systems, networks, data transfer channels, devices and data from fishing and cyber attacks and being controlled by wrong hands or being compromised during usage.

Cybersecurity protect data from unauthorized usage and exploitation of systems, networks and technologies by cyber attacks.

Cybersecurity protects data from data theft and damage. This includes bank data, personal information, medical information, intellectual property of organizations, government, institutions, international data and so on.

Types of Cyber Security

The three types of cyber securities are as follows:

1. Cloud Security: Cloud Data storage need to be secured at all times from cybertheft.
2. Network Security: Data being transferred and stored in network of organization need to be secured from outside threats and guarded all the time. For example Antivirus and Antispyware programs as, Firewall that blocks unauthorized access to network, VPN(Virtual Private Network) used for remote access.
3. Application Security: Securing cyber information at application level.
4. Critical Information Cybersecurity: Critical Information Infrastructure(CII) are facilities, cyber networks and applications which involve secret information of a nation and which need to be secured at any cost.
5. Internet of Things (IoT)Security: It involves safeguarding technology segment of connected devices and networks.

Organizations should train employees in cybersecurity

Organizations, Institutions and Government offices should train their employees to differentiate scams and fishing attacks from normal operations.

Train and teach employees to stand by cybersecurity best practices and advocate company wide security practices and reinforce newly learned security practices.

Here is a list of actions that may be applied company wide to bring about Cybersecurity practices, protect and secure company data:

1. Prepare Cybersecurity mindset
2. Increase cybersecurity awareness by training and teaching best practices
3. Share incidents of cyber breach and how to handle such situations, through meetings and storytelling
4. Create ethically sound scenarios, to train employee, in a given situation
5. Furnish rewards and schedule ceremonies to make cybersecurity a strong point and celebrate newly learned skill of employee
6. Share data of percentage of cybersecurity practice’s trained employees, to motivate the new recruits and the rest
7. Make it a part of essential and mandatory training to create safe and secure workplace and futuristic protected cyberenvironment with less chances of data breach.

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Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing. http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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