Briefly describe Cybercrimes targeting different demographics (ex: business vs. non-business people)
Briefly describe Cybercrimes targeting different demographics (ex: business vs. non-business people)
Cyber crime is the flip side of cybersecurity — a huge spectrum of damaging and illegal activity carried out using computers and the Internet. Cyber crime targets both individuals and companies. Typically, attackers target businesses for direct financial gain or to sabotage or disrupt operations. They target individuals as part of large-scale scams, or to compromise their devices and use them as a platform for nefarious activity.
As a business, your best bet against cyber crime is to prepare a solid incident response plan. Often planning is not enough — you should have the security staff and tools in place to execute it. An incident response plan, according to the SANS framework, includes:
- Preparation—codifying your security policy, identify types of critical security incidents, prepare a communication plan and document roles, responsibilities and processes for each one. Recruit members to your computer security incident response team (CSIRT) and train them.
- Identification—use security tools to accurately detect anomalous behavior in network traffic, endpoints, applications or user accounts, and rapidly collect evidence to decide what to do about the incident.
- Containment—isolate the affected systems, clean them and gradually bring them back online.
- Eradication—identify the root cause of the incident, and do everything to ensure the issue does not repeat itself. Fix broken security measures that let in the attackers, patch vulnerabilities, and ensure you clean malware from all endpoints.
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