CYBERSECURITY COUNTER MEASURES

CYBERSECURITY COUNTER MEASURES

There are physical and software counter measures for cyber security

PHYSICAL MEASURES

• backup and recovery procedures ,

• hardware firewall

  
  

• intrusion detection systems,

• biometrics.

Backup

on a device or to the cloud or an external drive

Intrusion detection systems

Biometrics

Biometrics is the use of of human physiological characteristics such as fingerprint, iris patterns, or facial features to identify an individual.

SOFTWARE MEASURES

• effective passwords

• authentication systems

• encryption of data

• firewall

• antivirus and

• malware detection

Malware detection

Encryption

Encryption is the changing the view of a message so that any interruption of the source or real message cannot be read. The message can only be decoded by the holder of the key. The key is used to decode the message.

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