With every passing day, more and more enterprise businesses are now adopting technological methods and ways to carry out their operational tasks. A great proportion of the business work is now getting transferred to the desktops and computers.
There is no doubt that technology has made the business operations and tasks easier than they have ever been before; but comfort always comes at a price. With millions of gigabytes of data being stored in internet connected devices, there’s a great risk of getting it stolen or damaged by the third parties called the hackers, attackers, or cyber criminals. And such activity is known as the cyber attack.
Cyber criminals are always making new strategies, sharpening their skills and finding new tools and tactics in order to combat the updating and upgrading of the organization’s systems. They are always hunting for the vulnerabilities found within the security systems and prevention systems. Such attacks are not only a nuisance to the organizations but can also be lethal for a business. To avoid such a situation Cybersecurity software is the solution.
The term Cybersecurity means the implementation of different technologies, and other network architectures to provide the organization’s protection against the cyber attacks. Cybersecurity focuses on protecting the devices, data, and the application and reducing the risk of getting attacked. But in order to effectively achieve that purpose, there is a need to continually evolve and devise new strategies.
What led to the advent of cybersecurity? A person named Robert Morris first introduced a virus and he was the first person in the history who was charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. After the creation of the virus, an era of antiviruses emerged. Since then, there has been a non-ending war between the viruses and antiviruses across the network. This has given rise to the cybersecurity software.
Any computer programme that is designed to reinforce the information security, prevention of the intrusion of illicit sources to the internet-connected computer systems containing sensitive information and valuable data. Highly experienced professionals are the ones who can construct a cybersecurity system for the enterprise businesses which are tailor-made for these organizations. Cybersecurity analysts will be required to assess, monitor, and predict the risks and hazards to which the systems are prone to.
There are different types of Cybersecurity software, let’s discuss a few of them:
Firewalls
Firewalls acts as a defense system. It protects a single computing device and/or computer network. It is designed to strain the data entering or leaving a network and prevents the viruses from entering the computing system.
Think of a firewall as a barrier against the unauthorized network and allows only the traffic to get through it which is defined trusted by the firewall policy. This selective entry of traffic mitigates the risk of getting attacked by cyber criminals. The firewall comes in many forms such as proxy firewall, threat-focused NGFW, stateful inspection firewall, next-generation firewall (NGFW), and unified threat management (UTM) firewall.
Antivirus
An antivirus is a Cybersecurity software which has an extensive role in securing the network-connected systems. The roles that antivirus is assigned to carry out involve to search, detect, prevent, and eliminate the malware for example viruses, scareware, worms, and Trojans and/or malicious software. Antiviruses should be continually updated to detect the new threats and combat the continuous attacks of the virus.
Many vendors offer the antiviruses with different kind of functions the antivirus can fulfill. But there are some basic functions that an antivirus must be able to perform:
• Scanning the directories and files
• Detecting the suspicious patterns within files and directories
• Scanning of a specific file within the computer system which is suspected to be a malware or malicious
• Scanning of external devices such as CD, flash drive, etc.
• Removing the infected files
• Scheduling the automatic scans
Spyware detection
It is also known by the names adware and malware. Spyware detection is installed in the system without the consent of the system’s owner. To detect the presence of this on your computing devices, anti-spyware software is used which is also able to prevent and remove this installation from your computer. It is extremely and crucially important to remove them from the system because they have the ability to spy and keep a record of the personal information from within your computer system.
Surprisingly, it can also keep track of your system’s computing behaviors which includes web browsing, your documents, and keystrokes. What these spyware softwares can do to your system:
• alter the advertising on your computer
• modify your system’s configuration
• send your personal details to some third party remotely located
Password protection
This is a complete and intricate method which is used to block the access from the unauthorized sources to your system, documents, files, and folders. The trick of making this process more useful and fruitful is directly proportional to human memory. Many people tend to create a password that is easy-to-remember which mostly includes their birthdays, their family names, some digits taken from their cell number, or even some/most people would use the word ‘password’ itself as their password. Avoid using such easy patterns for the password used as it makes easier for the cyber criminals to guess and break into your system information.
Another common mistake that many people within or outside the organizations commit is using the same password across many platforms. That puts all your platform/accounts under the risk if one of your platforms is accessed by a cyber criminal the rest will automatically become at their disposal. On the contrary, a well-thought and a difficult password will be harder to guess making your information relatively secure, if not completely. Generating strong password prevents from bigger problems to arise.
It is apparently not possible to survive without using the internet and the internet may have many advantages but it is never a secure place. Cybersecurity software comes in handy at such vulnerable moments where risk becomes inevitable. It prevents viruses and identity theft, provides the protection against valuable information, ensures compliance, enhances security, and reduces the cost of development.