Types of Cyber Security

Critical Infrastructure

The critical infrastructure of the world functions as a cyber-physical hybrid. Everything from hospitals to water purification plants to the electricity grid are now plugged into the online world and digitized. We gain many advantages from this super-structure. Putting a system online, however, also creates new vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks and hacking. When a company first connects itself to the physical and then digital world, the first infrastructure it plugs itself into is the critical infrastructure. Company decision-makers must include this perspective into their plan on how attacks might affect their functionality. If a company does not have a contingency plan, it should create one immediately.

Network Security

The security of a network protects a company against unauthorized access and intrusions. Proper security over a network can also find and destroy internal threats to the system as well.Effective implementation of network security often requires some compromise and trade-offs. For instance, extra logins help to protect a company’s information from unauthorized access, but it also slows down company productivity. One of the significant problems of network security is that it uses a lot of company resources. Network security tools generate huge amounts of data. Even if a network security system finds a threat, it might slip through the cracks, ignored, due to the sheer volume of data that’s being produced. IT teams are now using machine learning to automate the identification of legitimate security threats, thereby reducing human error. But it’s far from a perfect system.