My motive is to educate everybody about ethical hacking as there are a lot of misconceptions about ethical hacking. I believe if we want to defeat the hacker then we’ll have to learn how hacking works.
1. Why cybersecurity is important in this digital economy?
Ans. After Covid-19, people altered how they work, study, exercise, and shop. People starting up their businesses and providing their services online. Local online shops and small businesses alike now have access to resources and tools that enable them to compete against big stores or businesses. As we move more towards digital economy advancement, we need to focus more on cybersecurity too. As we have already seen in the last few years, cybercrime is on the rise. While we are enjoying the convenience of a digital economy, system vulnerabilities and loopholes could put businesses and consumers at risk.
2. Does Digital encouragement from the Government make a large chunk of the Population vulnerable?
Yes, It is because a significant number of people don’t know about cybersecurity. They are not aware of information leaks and think that hackers can’t achieve anything by misusing their information. However, hackers can potentially damage their privacy, they can break into their account by brute-forcing the password or they can use social engineering to target the victims. A hacker requires a little bit of information to generate a list that could be their password. Hackers can also exploit vulnerabilities of a system or browser. Along with Digital encouragement, the government should also encourage their civilians about cybersecurity.
3. What are your initiatives in this field to educate people about hackers?
In the last 3 years, I’ve inspired and taught around 5,000 people. I’ve created a page on Instagram where I teach about cybersecurity and ethical hacking and am creating the largest ethical hacking posts series on Instagram. My motive is to educate everybody about ethical hacking as there are a lot of misconceptions about ethical hacking. I believe if we want to defeat the hacker then we’ll have to learn how hacking works. At this point in time, my audience base is around 80,000 on Instagram and I have a community on telegram also. I am planning to launch our website and youtube Channel soon.
4. Any suggestions for business owners to keep their sensitive data safe in this WFH situation because employees can access the sensitive data from their Homes?
During work from home, the responsibility of keeping sensitive data safe is increased. First of all, in order to keep sensitive data safe, business owners should introduce a VPN as part of their remote work policies to ensure that communications within the distributed office are secure.
Also, verify that all employee-used remote work devices have the most recent security patches and that anti-virus software is present and turned on. Data on employee devices must be protected by encryption that can immediately render it inaccessible to anyone without the proper credentials. The business Manager should manage and stores all the logs of an employee like file transfers, login time, logout time, how many times a file is accessed, etc.
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Interviewed by: Palash Srivastava
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