the 1st question. What is cybersecurity ?
Lets understand it by an example.
Imagine you have received a alert that a storm is coming. So you prepared by gathering tools, necessary material, food and water. You looked for the valuable items. Locked the doors and windows. the storm hits and there are powerful winds and rain.
The storm uses its power to breach into your house. you noticed that there are some leaks. You stood up and started the patching. You saw some water dripping from the roof to the floor. You put a bucket to prevent the damage for the floor.
Preventing and handling cyber attack is no difference. Organization must keep tools, rules, and prepare themselves to prevent and mitigate these type of attack or threats.
Definition: Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting information by ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, availability safeguarding peoples, network, and devices, from unauthorized access and exploitation.
What is Threat ?
Threat is a action done by threat actors to disrupt the operation, damage of asset, and information. There are mainly 2 type of threats. Internal threat and External threat.
internal threat arises inside the organization. This may be a person who works in the organization.
What is a Threat Actor ?
Threat actor is a person or group of person who intentionally harms the organization.
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