Distributed denial of service

In the internet age today, when most of the operations are online and hackers can commit data theft or harm businesses remotely, protecting resources from hackers has become more difficult than ever. With hackers and cybercriminals becoming more advanced, along with their technologies and software, businesses need to invest more in defending themselves and becoming cyber secure. The rate of cyber-attacks has drastically increased in the last five years with the cloud system and interconnected operating systems. If one part of the operation is attacked, it impacts the whole system.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become one of the most prominent forms of cybercrime over the last few years. While there’s no doubt they’ve increased in frequency, DDoS attacks also make for splashy headlines when they manage to take down major sites, even if they only manage to do so for a few minutes. Remember the time in the middle of January, when Facebook and WhatsApp stopped working for an hour and the world had fallen apart.

Even the best cybersecurity measures can prove ineffective when employees make the decision to misuse their access privileges. While people leaking secure data to public sources may be the most newsworthy example of such abuses, it’s far more common for employees to simply take vital data and information without having any specific plan for what to do with it. Recent research found that 85 percent of employees took documents or information they’d personally created and 30 percent took data they hadn’t created. This information included strategy documents, customer data, and even proprietary source code. With AI being introduced in all market segments, this technology with a combination of machine learning has brought tremendous changes in cybersecurity. AI has been paramount in building automated security systems, natural language processing, face detection, and automatic threat detection. Although, it is also being used to develop smart malware and attacks to bypass the latest security protocols in controlling data. AI-enabled threat detection systems can predict new attacks and notify admins of any data breach instantly.

Another important cybersecurity trend that we can't seem to ignore is targeted ransomware. Especially in the developed nations' industries rely heavily on specific software to run their daily activities. These ransomware targets are more focused such as the ‘Wanna Cry Attack’ on the National Health Service hospitals in England Scotland corrupted more than 70,000 medical devices. Though generally, ransomware asks to threaten to publish the victim's data unless a ransom is paid still it can affect the large organization or in the case of nations too.

These new trends have increased the demand for cybersecurity solutions for organizations. Organizations and even governments are relying on computerized systems to manage their day-to-day activities and thus making cybersecurity a primary goal to safeguard data from various online attacks or any unauthorized access.