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Running head: Landscape OF Security threats are changing in ever connected world of IOT

Landscape OF Security threats are changing in ever connected world of IOT

Landscape of Security Threats are changing in ever connected world of IOT

Devender Patlola

Introduction

Security and vulnerabilities, System hacking are not just started in recent years personals user, organizations and government are facing these security threats from longtime since late 80’s we have cyberattacks and after that it has increased rapidly, one of the major increase in the cyberattacks are because of the large usage of internet and also with the dependence on advance technologies of IT in organizations and users of IT have increased the concerns and attacks have also increased.

To add more, cyberattacks in organizations and Government has at high pace in recent years, with the new technologies comes in the new vulnerabilities and attacks also occur especially in cloud SaaS a cloud security attacks in Organizations and how to control vulnerabilities and find out the potential threats adopted advance security attacks internet and components connected to net are concern we have the cloud.

The scope of this review is huge. Most of the Cyberattacks are changing from time to time , if we compare from past 3 decades the attacks are new and different based on the world connected to internet and application, its changing and we will discuss further about how these data security attacks and cyber attacks are target who are the victims and how are they changing based on the data demand

How the attacks started and what was the idea of these virus

According to my knowledge and research in the start of computer world, the malware could have written as experiments, often highlighting security vulnerabilities or, in some cases, to show off technical abilities. Today, malware and cyberattacks are used primarily used to steal sensitive data let be personal, organizational, govt and concur the country by elections. Motive of the hackers have a negative intention from past 2 decades, making up images of digital thieves intent on stealing identities and letting disruptive viruses loose into cyberspace.

It wasn’t always that way. As to matter of fact, PC programmers were initially seen by society as innovation devotees who needed simply to advance, tweak and tinker. It wasn't until some other time – with the introduction of infections and digital wrongdoing – those customary programmers got lumped along with those of malignant plan and people in general vilification of hacking began.

Looking at the fact’s malware is often used to target government or corporate websites together guarded information or to disrupt their operations. In different cases, malware is additionally utilized against people to acquire individual data, for example, federal retirement aide numbers or charge card numbers. Since the ascent of far reaching broadband Internet access that is less expensive and quicker, malware has been planned progressively for the secrecy of data as well as carefully for benefit.. According to a report in (2012) Trojans continued to account for most of the threats in terms of malware counting as the number grows spectacularly. In 2009, Trojans were accounted for to have made up 60% of all malware. In 2011, the number has bounced up to 73 percent. The current rate demonstrates that almost three out of each four new malware strains made in 2011 were Trojans and shows that it is the weapon of decision for digital hoodlums to lead network interruption and information taking. (Julian & N, 2014)

And how Cyberattacks have grown in fast growing technology with usage of Internet

Cybercrime, cyberattacks are all related to computers and internet of things , a computer device is used for the committing all these crimes where frauds will be committed by hackers damage intellectual property, stealing individual identities, privacy violations form social media sites child trafficking and pornography, cyberattacks are not limited to only one sector it’s like this, where the computer and internet is used the attacks are common.

Since computer and internet was first used in US most of the attacks was are first in US and attacking someone’s personal private property, stealing damaging someone identities whare all there before computers too, but when human and organizations usage of computers has increased the Crime has added prefix of “Cyber” to crime which means the scope of attack has shifted its concentration to Cyberattacks (Gloria.L, 2019)

Types of Attacks are to name few which are common

Types of attacks differ form Organization to individuals , to name few for Organization common attacks are through.

· Malware

· Phishing

· spear phishing

· Man in the middle attack

· Trojans, Ransomware

· Denial of services attacks

· Attacks on IOT Devices

· Data breaches & Malware on mobile apps

And for individuals Types of Cybercrimes and motives behind the Cyberattacks

· Password Hygiene

· Anti-virus Software

· Caution against phishing attacks

· Identity theft and privacy invasion, Internet fraud, ATM fraud, wire fraud, File sharing and piracy, Counterfeiting and forgery, Child Pornography, Hacking, Computer Viruses, Denial of service attacks, Spam, steganography and e-mail hacking, Sabotage.

Let cybercrime on individuals, organization or Govt and countries, the motive of the hacker for the attack can be different but it is a crime and Invading personal space.

So, in the above we have seen how the attacks have started , what types and their intension for Cyberattacks and now we will investigate how the Landscape of the attacks are changing in ever connected world of Internet of Things. In the idea of “Cloud world” from past decade big companies have invested huge on the cloud platforms, changing the direction of the traditional IT setup in the organizations. Companies like Amazon had built Infrastructure as a service for provide services on the infrastructure and they provide the security to the services which they are providing but not to the application and systems of the business.

In an IaaS service model, a cloud provider hosts the infrastructure components that are traditionally present in an on-premises data center. This includes servers, storage and networking hardware, as well as the virtualization or hypervisor layer So as “Platform as a service” and “Software as a services” every Cloud service providers must strengthen the security policies before providing the services to the end client or end user that should be the focus and solutions which CSP’s provide to the client’s using their services. (Michelle.B, 2020) Am still gathering more information to bring in on the IOT and cloud security

Reference

Gloria.L. (2019). Cybercrime: Additional Information. Cybercrime: Additional Information. Julian, J. J., & N, S. (2014). A survey of emerging threats in cybersecurity. A survey of emerging threats in cybersecurity. Michelle.B, S. E. (2020). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).