Academic Paper Summary - World of Cyber Security and Cybercrime

This academic paper is written by Rachna Buch, Dhatri Ganda, Pooja Kalola and Nirali Borad. It talks about the risks of cybercrime that is done by a computer expert. In this paper, it is mentioned the consequences of cybercrime and the needs of cybersecurity. cybersecurity is to give prevention against cybercrime, while cybercrime is that several of acts made by individuals by making unsettling influence in-network, stealing others significant and private information, documents, hack bank details and accounts and moving money to their own. This paper gives itemized data regarding cybersecurity and cybercrime. It incorporates sorts of cybersecurity which are Communication Security, Network Security and Operational Security. Besides, it discusses the importance of cybersecurity when cybercrime occurs. In addition to mentioning the major problems in cybersecurity, such as virus, worms, hacker, malware, trojan horses and password cracking. Furthermore, advantages of cybersecurity which are improved security of cyberspace, increase in cyber defense, increase in cyber speed, protecting company data and information, protect systems and computers against virus, worms, malware and spyware, etc. and protects individual private information. While the disadvantages are it will be costly for average users, firewalls can be difficult to configure correctly, needing to keep updating the new software in order to keep security up to date and make the system slower than before. Moreover, the history of cybercrime as is mentioned in some important events, such as the first recorded cybercrime was recorded in the year 1820. Finally, the sorts of cybercrime, such as phishing, denial-of-service attack, slicing attack and bombing and spamming (Buch and Kalola, 2018).