Cyber Security Issues - Report Example

A modern phenomenon that is fast growing among attackers is what is referred to as blended threats. With this, attackers combine the characteristics of different components of IT threats including viruses, malicious code, worms with the server, client-side, and internet vulnerabilities to launch various attacks. Subsequently, because victims are not able to trace the origins of the attacks to a single source, it becomes difficult to control the rapid spread and widespread damage that is caused by the attack launch.

It is in line with this that Orrey (2011) notes that with multiple and differing attack vectors, chances are always higher that attackers will succeed.A major contributing factor to the sophisticating growth of cyber-attacks has to do with the corresponding growth of the internet and information communication systems. Among individuals, corporate bodies, and governmental institutions, the use of the internet and information community systems have almost become a necessary evil that they cannot do without.

Meanwhile, these have also acted as the very media through which the spread of cyber attacks take place. It is not surprising therefore that the commonest forms of attacks available are those that have to do with internet-based malwares, viruses, botnets, denial-of-service, Trojan horses, and worms. What is more worrying is the fact that the levels of risks associated with these attacks increase with the scope of the affected entity. For example at the individual level, the threat may not be deemed as very harmful but at the corporate and governmental levels where network services are used, a greater quantum of harm are done infrastructures.

For any identified threat, there is no denying the fact that the best approach to dealing with it is a corresponding security solution but in today’s diversifying computer system, this approach has been difficult and in some cases, lacking. The reason for this could be because of the fact that the business environment operates its computer systems through different applications such as e-mails, electronic commerce, database and so on. So an attempt to have an all-round security solution is always hampered with the fact that different institutions would have different security needs.