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By Revanth Reddy Chintam
Steps to detecting cyber-attacks earlier:-
- Check your website regularly: This is the very basic step to detect any possible cyber attacks in future. A daily check of your website for any unusual changes, like PHP errors, this can be signal that there are possible chances of a cyber-attack.
- Monitoring Website alerts regularly: It is very important to analyze the website alerts time to time. In a DDoS attack, the website which is about to be attacked experiences unusual network traffic to the site. These attacks have specific patterns, so it is reliable to keep an eye on the internet traffic and the website alerts.
- Investing in threat detecting software: A threat detecting software detects possible intrusions just in a few minutes. These investments are well worth making.
- Use a honeypot: Use of honeypot is a very intelligent approach to detect cyber-crime attacks. Honeypots are said to be the legitimate parts of the website containing very valuable information but in reality, they contain information that is not at all useful to the cyber-criminals. Since, this honeypot attracts the attention of cyber-criminals, it acts as a warning that there a possibility of cyber attack to that particular website.
- Learn from the past to predict the future attacks: Cyber-criminals learns from experience and from the businesses that they have successfully attacked and they don’t want to use any other painful way to handle such things. It is predictable that, a cyber-criminal can attack on the same website twice with the same method he used in the past. Hence, it is prudent, if the website can monitor their systems based on the past attacks and this can help them quick identification of any security breach in the future.
- Training your employees: Problem can generate from anywhere in the system, it is very necessary to train your employees about recent cyber threats and keep them up to date about what to be done if they are suspicious about something in the website. This will more likely help in spotting the threats and less likely to click on a well-crafted phishing email.
Steps to avoid Cyber-attacks:
- Use Strong Passwords: It is always recommended to use different passwords for different sites. Use strong passwords by using at least a Case sensitive, number and symbol in the password.
- Keep your softwares updated: Updating softwares can help in removing bugs and fixes security patch.
- Managing social media settings: It is recommended not to disclose any personal and private information on social media, always keep you personal and private information locked down.
- Keep up to date on major security breaches: If you have an account of your business in site which has been attacked by hackers, find out what information has been accessed by those hackers.
- Take measures to protect yourself from identity theft: Identity theft occurs when someone wrongfully obtains your personal data in a way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. You can be tricked into giving personal information over the internet. So be alert!
- Strengthen your Home networks: It’s a good idea to start with a strong encryption password as well as a virtual private network. A VPN will encrypt all traffic leaving your devices until it arrives at its destination.
- Know what to do if you become a victim: It is your duty to inform the local police and, in some cases, the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission if you believe you are a victim of cyber-crime.
- Keep an eye on the children: Enable Parental Control on the internet to ensure safe browsing. Children might be attracted into entering various malicious sites by cyber criminals. Specific unprotected sites must not be accessible by children.
- Identity theft can happen anywhere: Identity theft can happen even when you are travelling too. Be careful when you plan to travel. Take precautions like keeping your travel plans away from social media and always use a VPN while accessing the internet over your hotel’s Wi-Fi network.
- Talk to your children about the internet: It is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that their children do not take wrong path while using the internet. The children must be made aware of cyber crimes and cyber criminals.
This article throws light upon how to identify whether a person or an organization is hit by the cyber criminals. This article lays specific emphasis on how after identifying that one has been a target of an online cyber crime, to avoid them taking away the data which is most crucial to you and at the same time, being better safe than sorry, that is protecting and securing your devices well in advance before any cyber criminal or hacker tries to exploit your data. This article is well-drafted and throws light upon some crucial aspects which were probably unknown to the general public, who are not very much aware of how technologically advanced criminals have become and the tricks that they have up their sleeves. The Honey Pot method which the writer refers to is something which is used even by cops to catch the most deadliest of the criminals that exist.
The article is well good and its also notifying us that we should protect our siblings and youngsters from the world of internet . We should not open up on any social website much. Be safe be protected
Creating awareness this way would definitely make an impact on people , they’d be more cautious with the information they upload online , and would in turn help others
Really good article it really help me to understand things easily
Well the article deals with the major note that protective and preventive measures to avoid or say become victim to any cyber crime. It deals with the major initiative that what can be done when you become prey to any of such cyber crimes dealing with websites, socialmedia, etc. The best thing which a laymen or any firm or organization can learn is that to set up a trap say honeypot to identify any past or future cyber criminal against them. The article brings up a point to be true that is “PRECAUTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CURE”……..
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This article explains all the points nicely and these are the mandatory steps should be taken to avoid cyber attacks.
this article nicely deals with the preventive steps that an individual can take to prevent cyber-crime. it also deals with how to detect cyber-crime earlier which is very important. we can learn from this article that ‘prevention is better than cure’. if we take these simple preventive measures then it could make a big change in prevention of cyber-crimes.
this article is helpful the procedures to detect the cyber attacks and also the various precautions one can take to prevent cyber attack which is very important. The weakest segment in a companies is the users as they often lack the basic cyber safety training. Training the employees on the do’s and dont’s would certainly help in preventing cyber attacks to a great extent.
Very informative!! Good efforts in spreading awareness about the cyber crimes and it’s impacts. An all-round information about the Do’s and the Don’ts while using the cyber space. It educates about identifying the threats beforehand. It will help in preventing oneself from it’s consequences rather than getting tricked into being a victim of one.
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Good Article
The article was short still informative but I think Ethical hacker must be discussed in this article.
great efforts to create awareness and primary precautions regarding internet in cyber security