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How Is Cyber Security Both A Business Risk and IT Challenge?

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Cyber-security is established protocols that businesses apply to secure their systems and networks. Cybersecurity is the collective plans to overcome susceptibility of business data and systems to potential malicious, fraudulent and business damaging attacks from online cyber-criminal sources. Cybersecurity has become a very important issue today more than ever before. Types of Common Cyber Security Risks and Attacks Hacking: this is trying to compromise digital devices like computers, smartphones, tablets or entire networks. Hacking may not be done for malicious purposes but characteristic activity by cyber criminals for financial gain, as a form of protest, gather data through spying) or as a hobby. Phishing: this is a cyber-security risk derived from social engineering that attempts to access sensitive business data like passwords, usernames, credit card numbers etc. SQL Injection: this is a cybersecurity attack targeting primarily data-driven applications by using securi