Technology’s Impact On Cyber Security

In today’s society, emerging technology is ubiquitous and our lives are impacted daily by technology in many ways, from artificial intelligence (AI) to smart devices. 

The ever-evolving digital cyber age affects more elements of life than most people realise. In particular, the rate of cyber crimes has grown exponentially and is consistent with the growth of technology.

As technology has advanced,  the ability to detect cyber crime has struggled to keep pace and the world is becoming more vulnerable to cyber crime, identity theft and leaks of private data.

As companies subsequently take proactive measures to improve cyber security, simultaneously the number of organised hacking groups are increasing and their tactics are getting bolder.Using advanced tools, hackers can break into networks and steal classified information. The result is that all the information about an organisation’s employees, customers, and company itself, is distributed all over the Web. This leads to irreversible damage to the company’s reputation.

There are four main ways in which technology influences cyber security, and how current technology increases information security risks.

• Password Protection:   As everything is digitally stored in the cloud or on servers, there is a lot of information accessible only by password, possibly the weakest link, due to human factors, including carelessness or plain stupidity.

• Targeted phishing: With the increase in awareness of email phishing cases, phishing attempts have become more sophisticated, targeting employees of organisations and businesses.

• The emergence of Botnets: Whose purpose is to perform malicious tasks for their owners. Previously, they were commonly used in email, but now are also capable of collecting personal information about individuals and companies, then stealing it and passing it on to hackers, who can then sell it.

• Breach of social media privacy:   Social media that many of us use every day may violate our privacy, revealing us to future attacks. It is common for people to share a lot of personal information on social networks, which can be used to steal identities.

We are facing an ever- growing number of cyber attacks, data breaches, phishing attacks, and botnets that threaten our digital infrastructure. We should therefore use familiar solutions as well as develop new ways to neutralise these effects, and ensure that all our data is safe.

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