October is Cyber Security Awareness month. Cyber Security Awareness month was officially launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in October of 2004. At first, the effort was aimed around common cyber security facts and advice. Since then, the two organizations have worked collaboratively to provide education, resources, and training that ensures that people know about cyber security risks and understand how to implement cyber security best practices. In 2011, the NCSA and DHS created weekly themes where each week of the month of October focused on specific aspects of cyber security such as education, cybercrime, or mobility. This year the theme is “Do Your Part. “BeCyberSmart.” This week especially focuses on cyber awareness in business and the career field.
Cyber Security is the protection of networks, applications, information and the operation of computer systems. Computer threats and risks come in the form of malware, phishing, man in the middle attacks, denial of service attacks, SQL injection, zero-day exploits, password cracking, cross site scripting and DNS attacks. Everyone should be protected when using the internet and internet systems because malicious cyber activity takes place on a single home system or affect an entire network in an organization. Cyber breaches and malicious attacks are costly and can be debilitating to a company. Organizations who experience an attack can suffer loses in profit, productivity, customers, business partners and overall reputation. Earlier this year, T- Mobile suffered a cyber security breach that resulted in the exposure of more than 4 million customers personal information. (Grullón Paz, I.). Consequently, T Mobile saw a nearly $5.3BN share value loss and may face a $250 million fine (Fletcher, B.)
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