The Cybersecurity Through a Historical Perspective
The cybersecurity around the world is continuously facing numerous and growing challenges from the hackers on aspects such as data loss, risk management, privacy as well as the changing strategies of cybersecurity. As far as changing cybersecurity strategies, the status of vulnerability and growing cyberattacks are concerned, there is no indicator to ensure that cyberattacks would decrease. In the context of the increasing number of vulnerabilities as well as increased numbers of cyberattacks, more effective strategies are required to secure digital resources including the protection of devices and networks.
The most acute and problematic area of cybersecurity is the continuously growing nature of cybersecurity risks. When new technology is introduced to tackle cyber threats or existing technology updated applied against a specific type of cyber-attack, new types and methodologies of attacks are used by the attackers. When you look cyberattacks from its origin through a historical perspective and in the context of cybersecurity, it was in 1971 through creeper virus the attackers entered into cyberattack. The creeper virus is perhaps the first recognised computer virus.
The need and urgency of cybersecurity were felt essential and in 1983, the MIT or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was permitted for a method of a cryptographic communications system which is considered as the first cybersecurity patent. Soon cyberattacks grew like wildfire and millions of PCs or personal computers were reported under cyberattacks in 1990. This essentially promoted the idea of looking cybersecurity as a necessary household concern and the need for creating more effective antivirus software were felt urgent and inevitable.
Eventually, the first international conference the Def Con Conference focussing cybersecurity was held in 1993. On the other hand, the Anonymous was formed in 2003 which was the first well-established and well-known hackers’ group. The target breach took place in 2013 where records of 40 million debit and credit cards were accessed and stolen. Soon after that, in 2016, Yahoo reported that 500 million user accounts were hacked and the hackers accessed the data of those users.
Similarly, the Equifax security breach took place in 2017 which eventually exposed the individual data and information of 147 million people. The GPDR or the general data protection regulation was implemented in 2018 which focussed the need for protection of individual end-user’s data in the European Union. In addition to this, the CCPA or the California Consumer Privacy Act was implemented in 2018 in order to support the right to own PII and control it.
