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Response to Eddie

Before I write my response, I would like to thank you for your excellent work and research. I concur with your post that cybersecurity threats have come so frequently and costly for an organization to deal with it. It is essential to ensure that employees are well trained on better data protection as most of the attacks are tailored towards them as most of them are very unaware of the tricks. I agree with your post that most of the frequent attacks that are witnesses today are tailored toward the human components in terms of scams, phishing, and spams.

It is, therefore, essential to ensure that employees are well aware of the different forms of cyber-attacks such as phishing, Trojans, malware, DDOs attacks, ransomware, and man in the middle attacks, among others. This should be in terms of how they occur and how to deal with them (Voss, 2019). Training is a very effective way through which employees can be sensitized about them; also, it is imperative to ensure frequent refresher training to ensure that employees are briefed about the latest developments and new threats. Lastly, I concur with your post that the most critical data to protect involves the individual's confidential data. The data is crucial as its exposure can have severe consequences when it lands to the hands of the evil hands. Example of this data is the PINs, passwords, number of credit cards health data, among others. Many organizations have suffered a lot of losses when the data of their employees have been exposed. It is, therefore, essential to ensure that data is well protected to ensure that it does not fall into the hands of the evil-minded individuals (Voss, 2019).

Response to Kimberly

Hello, I like the way you have organized your post. I agree with your position on the different types of cyber-attacks. Looking at the list of cyber-attacks that you have presented, I must say that organizations and individual needs to be vigilant as the number of attacks has significantly increased. Also, attackers have come up with different modes and forms of attacks, posing even many threats to organizations. In addition to this, I believe that organizations need to train their employees and adapt the knowledge of ethical hacking as this is the only way through which they will able to counter the increased amounts of cyber threats (Voss, 2019). I need to say that your article has opened me about the new types of attacks that are present today, which includes crypto-jacking, cloud issues as well as credential stuffing.

With the current advancement in technology, I tend to disagree with your post that the most common type of attack involves direct attack. Currently, I believe that attackers are targeting the human component more, making the human-related attacks such as scams, phishing, and spams where frequent. Because most employees are less informed, attackers are now targeting employees. A direct attack on a system can indeed be very costly to an organization, especially when the system is compromised in a way that services are halted. Lastly, the cost of an attack indeed relies on the type of organization that has attacked. Organizations today need to ensure that proper protective measures are put in place to ensure that its resources are well protected.

References

Benson, V., & McAlaney, J. (2019). Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities. Academic Press.

Voss, R. (2019). Cybersecurity: What YOU Need to Know about Cybersecurity, Ethical Hacking, Risk Assessment, Social Engineering & How to DEFEND YOURSELF from Attacks. Independently Published.