Cyber Security: Issues, Challenges & Countermeasures

Abstract

In the present era of information & communication technology, there is a huge amount of data to be communicated over the internet and everyone wants a secure communication to their data. But there are various issues related to the cyber security which diminishes the confidence of the people to use internet for communication. Keeping in View the same, this paper aware people about different types of attacks which can occur in a society and provide the solutions to protect themselves from these attacks. In the first phase, various popular types of attacks on data are described. Second phase describes various cyber crime histories at the national & international level. Finally, various challenges which are faced by people in information exchange along with the various techniques to resolve the issues of cyber security are defined which are beneficial in secure information exchange.