Cyber security, Cookies and privacy.

In the current world cybercrime is increasingly affecting the personal security of employees and organization as whole. The flourishment of software development and shortage of cybersecurity skills among IT experts have fueled the cybercrime. In every 39 seconds cybercrime crime takes place and it worth $1.5 trillion economic wise.

How does the cookies and cybersecurity affect the organization or employees?

Cybersecurity is very expensive. Organizations or individuals invest heavily on the cyber security to protect their information from breach. Despite the investment the cybersecurity is still a threat. However, the companies should institute proper cybersecurity technology such as employing IT experts that monitor the intrusion of the fishers to organization network. If an organization fall a victim of cybercrime the company may suffer financial loss as well as sensitive data and trust of clients. Furthermore, cybersecurity threats such as ransomware that aim to incorporate encryption malware into organization network.

Security concern about cookies.

Cookies can be issued by any website and the information stored in cookies are subject to modification each time the user visited the website. Therefore, cookies   can be snooped easily and forged by phishers or hackers. Cookies have a number of vulnerabilities as far as the cyber security concern. That is network threats, cookies harvesting threats and end system threats. Network threats are effective in the use of cookies due to the fact that cookies are transmitted in clear text and can be modified during transfer. The organization can use secure socket layer (SSL) to shield the cookies during transfer over the network. End system threats are associated with vulnerabilities such as forgery of information and impersonation of other users.

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