1. Why is
cybersecurity is so important in this digital economy?
Digital
Economy:- Digital Economy is developing rapidly worldwide. The digital
economy is also referred to as “Internet Economy”, “Web Economy” or “Economy
over internet” Cyber Security is
required to make secure transactions over the Internet.
2. Do you feel cyber
crimes are going to increase in this recession time and how we can handle it?
Yes, In this
recession Cyber Crimes are at the highest peak. To understand how we can handle
Cyber Crime we need to know what type of crime is and most of the cyber-crimes
are getting mitigated by providing Awareness to your employees. Following are
some of the Cyber-crime those change their graph during Recession/pandemic
time. I have mentioned only 5 out of many attacks.
1.
Phishing:- This can handle by spreading cybersecurity awareness, and bit
consciousness like, before entering your credentials you need to check if it’s
a legitimate site or not and there are many more factors
2.
Vishing:- This will also take care by spreading knowledge about
Cybersecurity few are common factors like Don’t Share the OTP overcall with
anyone, Never Share your personal Details over a call like Personal Identification Number, Passport Number, Account Number,
3.
Ransomware:- By Using Anti-virus and updated DAT/Signature files we can
prevent our machines from Ransomware Attack. Note:- Never download free software from un-trusted sites.
4.
Web-site hijacking:- This is Not an attack but the web
site Hijacking could be by security misconfiguration, Why I have added this
category into attacks because website hijacking could be done by various
methods and that’s possible only there is some parameters or website vectors
are not secure, so that by using those misconfigured things an attacker can get
lots of information that will be used in many manners.
5.
Malware:- Malware is a parent type of all types of attacks like viruses,
Trojans, worms, and many more. We can protect our corporate and personal
machines by using Anti-virus with updated definitions
3. Does the
digital encouragement from the government side make a large chunk of the
population vulnerable?
No, I don’t think
so, because if we are fully compliant with our devices and all public-facing
applications and conducting quarterly VAPT test then there is no vulnerability.
4. What are
your initiatives in this field to educate people about the hackers?
There
are various methods to educate people “How to protect from getting hacked”
1. By providing them
Monthly training.
2. Conducting the
Campaigns,
3. Providing Social
Engineering Awareness, because most People are providing personal information
on social media, without knowing what will be the cause of this information
leak.
5. What are the
technical skills they need to develop and how they endorse this field to be
successful?
Technical
Skills development totally depends on the field, like software engineers need
to understand how to write secure code and make the code stronger so that no
one can crack this.
Network Engineer needs to understand how to use a proper protocol
to communicate the message so that no one can intercept
Financial Department: - They need to know which type of
information we can share without the organization and which one is confidential.
6. Is there any
software you would recommend to people how paranoid should people be when they
are using it for very basic purposes like interacting with friends and
colleagues?
Using Social
Media platforms is not a bad thing but sharing their personal and sensitive
information which may cause trouble for them in the future that needs to be
correct.
7. Any suggestions for
business owners to keep their sensitive data safe in this WFH situation due to
employees can access the sensitive data from their home.
Use VPN and
apply it to make sure your files and secret information should not share over
the internet openly. Provide awareness training to the employees to prevention
from Data Loss.
Interview by - Mahi
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