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The Importance of Cybersecurity Metrics

Cybersecurity protects internet-connected devices and services against phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, malware, identity theft, and financial losses. Government, military, corporate, medical, and retail organizations generate, transmit, and store unprecedented amounts of information that can be valuable to evil doers for malicious reasons. Cybersecurity is the discipline that focuses on protecting

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What is a Botnet?

A botnet is a group of computers infected with malware and controlled by the same malicious hacker. It is used to carry out attacks like DDoS, spam, crypto mining, and stealing private data. Hackers build botnets to make money and to wreak havoc on the internet. Once infected with the

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The Economic Impact of Cybercrime

The world is more digitally transformed than ever before, and criminals take advantage of that fact to commit a range of cybercrimes such as phishing, ransomware and data breaches. This has a major economic impact on companies, governments and individuals worldwide, and it’s predicted to grow exponentially. On a large

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