Cyber Security Essentials

Cybersecurity refers to the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access.

Cybersecurity is a collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurance and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment and organization and user’s assets.

Organization and user’s assets include connected computing devices, related personnel, organizational infrastructure, applications, services, telecommunications systems and networks. It also includes transmitted and/or stored information in the cyber environment.

Cybersecurity aims to ensure the attainment and maintenance of the security properties of the organization and user’s assets against relevant security risks in the cyber environment.