Research Paper - update 200 words 2-3 references

Running Head: EMERGING THREATS AND COUNTERMEASEASURES IN IT 1

EMERGING THREATS AND COUNTERMEASEASURES IN IT 3

Emerging Threats and Countermeasures in IT

Student Name: Sandesh Adiyal

Professor: Dr Jan Felton

University of the Cumberlands

Cybersecurity Breaches

The IT industry is on a high alert due to the emerging and evolving cybersecurity threats. A data breach is occurring every day, causing incredible worry for security globally. The emerging threats are a concern to not only our social ideals but also our social ideals such as democracy and privacy. Corporations, Government, and individual data and assets are at a constant risk from cyber-attacks, which involves malware, phishing, SQL injection attack, and artificial intelligence (Traoré, 2017). The presence of malware, which is malicious code in a system or computer, cannot be known by a victim. Examples of malware are worms, viruses, and Trojan. Malicious advertisement injects this malware on the website. Phishing occurs when a digital message is sent to an individual from a phisher acting as a trustworthy business or person to steal personal and financial information like credit card information. SQL language is used to retrieve and manipulate data in the Database. SQL injection is an attack command written to damage a Database.

For the present IT industry, it is essential to shield IT systems and data. Organizations must comprehend the IT and data related threats they face and build adequately reliable security systems. Optimizing IT and Information Security is a program proposed to give practical security to an organization data and the advancement used to store and process it must address various essential components (Ge & Heiser, 2018). For instance, Confidentiality which guarantees that the data is available just to the individuals. Accessibility which ensures data and services are accessible when required. Additionally, people should tighten their passwords and username to guarantee that they do not fall causality to cybersecurity. This ensures safety of essential records in an organization as well as an individual data.

References

Ge, Q., Yarom, Y., Cock, D., & Heiser, G. (2018). A survey of microarchitectural timing attacks and countermeasures on contemporary hardware. Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 8(1), 1-27. Retrieved from;

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13389-016-0141-6

Traoré, I., Awad, A., & Woungang, I. (2017). Introduction: Emerging Threats Call for New Security Paradigms. In Information Security Practices (pp. 1-6). Springer, Cham. Retrieved from;

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12480