Jan 7, 2016
Cyber Security
- Author Ermias Teffera
- Jul 2, 2015
- 1 min read

Cyber security involves protecting information and system from major threats such as Cyber warfare, Cyber espionage and cyber terrorism.Cyber threats takes aim at governments, military, corporations, financial institutions, hospitals and other businesses that collect, process and store a great deal of confidential information on computers and transmit that data across networks to other computers. With the growing volume and sophistication of cyber attacks, ongoing attention is required to protect sensitive business and personal information.
Cyber Warfare
Cyber warfare involves nation-states using information technology to penetrate another nation's networks to cause damage or disruptions. It is an attack mainly involves in politically motivated attack on information and information system, cyber warfare can disable official website and network, making essential service unavailable or steal classified data.
Cyber Espionage or Cyber Spying
Cyber espionage is the practice of using information technology to obtain secret information without permission from its owners or holders. this can be personal, proprietary, sensitive or classified in nature from individuals competitors, rivals groups, governments or enemies.
Cyber Terrorism
This kind of attack is purely a disruptive use of information technology by terrorist group to further their ideological or political agenda.
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