Cybersecurity

Yahoo, eBay, Equifax, Target Store and Uber. What exactly do these big businesses have in common? These six businesses have been the targets of the largest data breaches in the 21st century. 3 billion accounts were affected in Yahoo, 145 million users in eBay, Personal information of 143 million users from Equifax were affected, 110 million customers were affected in Target Store, 57 million Uber users and drivers were also affected by the breeches (Stage2Data, 2022).

“it’s not if, but when” that organisations will be impacted by a cyberattack has been promoted by cybersecurity practitioners for many years.

Computer networking has become an increasingly important aspect of computing, as it allows users to share files and other resources. In addition, computer networks can provide security for users’ data.

In the present day and age, cybersecurity has become one of the most important issues enterprises face. With the advent of new technologies and increasing connectivity, companies are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks.

The telephone has served us well for nearly 150 years. The great strides in telephony innovation have seen us through industrialisation and globalisation. For enterprises, we are now at a point in technology adoption where we may be close to the next phase in telephony innovation – where we might not need legacy phone systems at all.

The coronavirus has really done a number on information security infrastructure. As if a public health crisis weren’t enough, threat actors have been taking advantage of sharp changes in IT behaviour and business imperatives to sneak into unsuspecting networks. Ransomware criminals have been around for decades, but the drastic rise in cyber-attacks over the last couple of years is concerning.

In a report published in 2019, the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) highlighted 5 major security threats that predominated Singapore’s cyber landscape. Malware, short for malicious software, comprised one of these threats.