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CYBERSECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT

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Like real-world everything in the cyberworld is prone to attack and damage.  To deal with these unexpected or deliberately planned attacks on cyber systems and networks , various strategies and preventive measures are devised and used which is called Cybersecurity Risk Management. It involves identification of risks and vulnerabilities of your cyber network or system and then devising plus applying administrative and comprehensive solutions to make sure that your data is safe and protected from attacks and damage. The very first step in cybersecurity risk management is to set up a cybersecurity risk management system which involves identification of the assets that need to protected and compiling a priority list. Since different organizations and networks/ systems have different structures it is completely up to the administration of the network/system/organization to compile the list of assets and using different strategies for risk management. For example, healthcare and financ...

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

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  Protecting a regions’ vital infrastructures such as food, agriculture, transportation, and more are called  Critical Infrastructure Protection . Every government in every region bears this responsibility of planning and devising a plan for the safety and risk management of the critical infrastructure against natural or man-made disasters like storms, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and more.  Disasters are estimated beforehand and then their preventive measures, preparedness, response, and recovery are considered the top priority in Critical Infrastructure Protection plans. As the world is progressing towards a new age of digital advancements, newer threats are showing their faces and the need for better planning has become imminent. Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) enables the nations to prepare for and then respond to serious incidents that can cause harm to critical infrastructure environments and to deal with the ever-growing threats.  The main thing he...

Micro-grid development and Construction

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img Source:  www.renewableenergyworld.com When various electricity sources and loads are interconnected within clearly defined electrical boundaries than can act as a single entity that gets electrical supply from a grid and this entity can be connected and disconnected from that single grid, then this entity is called micro-grid.  A micro-grid is a locally controlled system  that provides certain advantages to customers as well as utilities such as improved energy efficiency, reduced environmental impact, reliability of supply, voltage control, security, and more.  Before going into the development and construction phase of micro-grid we must first understand the microgrid lifecycle and ideal design. There are four main areas which are looked for developing a micro-grid – 1 Safety   Micro-grid enables electricity to flow in multiple directions. So you will need to establish safety practices and measures. 2. Control Control and planning for contingencies is...

How can government help win the cyber security arms race perfectly?

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Cyber-attackers and their sufferers have been scrambling for a support up over each other for ages, so governments are clearly ramping up their levels of intervention. Most of the sufferers didn’t even realize it until after researchers showed them a catalog of cyber attack methods. And hackers have found other ways to lose your footing into your network, moreover, from your laptops and itinerant devices including the IoT sensors you use to collect colossal volumes of critical constructive data. Other cybercrime evolutions consist of skyrocketing sales of nefariously beneficial ransom ware on the dark web . This out-of-the-box skill doesn’t require much software savvy and more and more popular crypto currencies such as bit coin offer supreme anonymity to perpetrators.  Some took to another, less attractive profession: robbing banks, many of which were housing the gold bars. After all, mining was just as simple as breaking open a safe with a mallet and pickaxe. T...