What is Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is the practice of keeping your personal information (and other information) safe online.
It involves systems and processes that are employed in order to protect data (whether it is your own data or a companies’ data).
It is important to keep this information safe from hackers, so that cyberattacks can be prevented.
There are many ways to go about building secure systems and defenses (which will be elaborated upon in future lessons- the idea for now is to be familiar with some basic cybersecurity terms and defenses.
Passwords, firewalls, multi factor authentication, VPNs, etc.
Authentication is the act of verifying a user’s identity, whereas authorization is giving rights/privileges to digital entities and users. In the next lesson we will look at the various cyberthreats that anybody can fall prey to if they do not know how to protect themselves and their data while online.