Cyber Security, Types and Importance Cyber Security is the body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, theft, damage, modification or unauthorized access. It’s also known as Information Security (INFOSEC), Information Assurance (IA), or System Security. Why Cybersecurity? Cyber Security is important because the government, Corporate, medical organizations, collect military, financial, process, and store the unprecedented amount of data on a computer and other properties like personal information, and these private information exposure could have negative consequences. Cyber Security proper began in 1972 with a research project on ARPANET (The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), a precursor to the internet. ARPANET developed protocols for remote computer networking. Example – If we shop from any online shopping website and share information like email id, address, and credit...