The Human Factor in Cybersecurity

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with a limited could balance the tradeoff of training and additional cybersecurity technology by allocating at least 75% of a budget on employee training and education. The human factor is one of the biggest threats to cybersecurity. Issues such as insider attacks, password attacks, and phishing attacks can come…

SCADA Systems and Cybersecurity

SCADA systems and applications provide cybersecurity for critical infrastructure systems by using hardware and software components to control and monitor sites. To support critical infrastructure systems, SCADA systems have evolved from independent distributed systems to open architecture systems, networked systems, and eventually adapted to work with modern Structured Query Language database systems (RealPars, n.d.). This…

The Difference Between Authorization and Authentication in the CIA Triad

In the world of cybersecurity, authorization is different from authentication in the CIA Triad. With the world being more into information security, companies rely on the core principle of cybersecurity to organize the protection of sensitive data and their systems. One of the most widely known models for understanding and applying these principles is the…