Questionnaire from Cyber Security Interview – Expert Opinion
- This questionnaire is scripted from the interview attached here, we have tried extracting a few questions and tried putting in question answer format for you to have a quick glance.
What is Cyber Security? & What are the Specializations in it?
Cyber Security is basically giving security to all your technology and devices from any online attacks, now under this there are many specifications and specializations that we can talk about. But on a whole, the practice of cyber security reduces the risk of being attacked by unauthorized networks and technologies. So at large, you can divide the specializations of cyber security into two- red teaming & the blue team. The Red team is predominately hackers, so the organization willfully wants to break into the hackers environment and help them stimulate the attack lifecycle and identify the vulnerabilities. So this is a very general description that i am giving, as a red team, you can break into a network, mobile phones, electronics & web applications. Whereas Blue teaming is predominantly about helping organizations stay safe, this can be bifurcated into two different types of things one would be on the technical side, where you’re developing and deploying certain tools. In blue teaming, so you can figure out what’s happening in the real time, that is proactive monitoring. And then there is a breach that comes into picture when the incident or the attack has already happened then forensic comes into the picture. There is digital response and then there is digital forensics which comes after the threat has already occurred.
What is the first step an organization should take if they are facing a Cyber Threat?
Organizations usually have lots of policies and procedures in place and most of the corporations of big organizations have threat security in place. So they have an information security manual ISPM and if certain organizations do not have it, it’s a must-have. It’s the best practice to reduce the risk of dealing with threats & attackers beforehand. Another important thing is that the policies also differ as per the geo-locations, for an example Europe has a policy GDPR and what it states is if there is any breach that has happened or any sort of personal identifiable information which has gone out of any customer residing in Europe by the organization then the organization has to let authorities know within the 72 hours of them knowing that the breach has happened otherwise they are reliable to pay a huge sum of fines. Cyber Security Types and Threats Defined !
What should be an individual’s first step, if he/she faces any Cyber Threat in India?
In India, if somebody is bothering you or somebody is threatening you, the best person to go to is the police and as we have the cyber division in place you can seek help from them. It’s slow but it’s the best possible pace to help from.
Is it safe to log in to public WIFI as café work culture is such a big hype?
Data breaching is a big thing as we know so first of all I will highly recommend people to not connect to any public wifi and maybe even if you have to, have your own VPN on. Therefore it’s always important to maintain that hygiene. Just recently an incident happened when I was returning back to Dubai and while on the flight I would see wifi availability so randomly I typed 1 to 8 as the password and I could access the internet. So people talk about password complexities but what about keeping your hotspot or wifi password strong. And hence we should inculcate the habit of having complex passwords and practice it.
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