Cyber Security: Terms, Laws, Threats and Protection

Abstract

Looking at the current scenario of 21st century, people have revolutionized their daily life and activities with the help of internet and digitalization. As the digital era is advancing and getting more digitalized, the cyber space is often targeted to attacks in an unethical way for illegal benefits. The sudden spike in cyber-attacks has led to creation of cyber rules and regulations. The cunningness and effective attack by attackers make it nearly impossible to trace back the attacker. In this paper, a rigorous review has been conducted on cyber-crime, fundamental terminologies used in cyber, related laws and guidelines to be more secure on cyber space.