Introduction - Cybersecurity and Privacy - Prof. Saji K Mathew
Summary
TLDRThis course delves into the dark side of the cyber world, exploring the challenges posed by technology misuse. It aims to raise awareness about cyber threats, targeting managers and security professionals. The course covers cyber security and privacy from both a managerial and technological perspective, focusing on governance, risk, and compliance. It includes planning for cyber attacks, risk management, and the use of technologies like cryptography for protection. Additionally, it addresses information privacy, discussing global regulations and the role of technology in safeguarding individual data.
Takeaways
- 🌐 **Cyber World's Dark Side**: The course focuses on the challenges and threats in the cyber world, emphasizing the potential risks of using digital technologies.
- 🛡️ **Technology's Dual Role**: It highlights the importance of securing digital assets, as well as the role of technology in both creating and mitigating cyber threats.
- 💡 **Awareness Generation**: Aims to generate awareness about cyber security challenges, particularly for practicing managers and professionals in the field.
- 🏢 **Management and Governance**: The course views cyber security not just from a technological perspective but also as a management and governance issue, incorporating risk and compliance.
- 🔒 **Cyber Security Planning**: It discusses planning for cyber security from both a contingency and risk management perspective, emphasizing proactive and preventive measures.
- 🛑 **Contingency Planning**: Covers how to restore technology to normal conditions post-attack and the importance of quick recovery from cyber incidents.
- 🔑 **Risk Management in Cyber Assets**: Evaluates the value of digital assets, assesses potential threats, and plans management actions to mitigate risks.
- 🔐 **Cyber Security Technologies**: Explores available technologies for protecting cyber assets, including recent developments in cryptography.
- 📊 **Information Privacy**: Shifts focus from security to privacy, discussing the value of personal data and the importance of regulations like GDPR and India's proposed DPDP Act.
- 🌟 **Current Developments**: The course includes insights from industry experts on current technologies used for cyber security and the evolving landscape of information privacy.
Q & A
What is the primary focus of the course on cybersecurity and privacy?
-The course focuses on the dark side of the cyber world, addressing the challenges and threats that arise with the extensive use of digital technologies, and aims to generate awareness about cybersecurity challenges, especially for practicing managers and professionals.
Why is it crucial to secure digital assets in an organization?
-Securing digital assets is crucial because the failure to do so could lead to the collapse of an organization, especially if it is heavily dependent on digital technologies. Cyber attacks can disrupt and destroy digital infrastructure, impacting business operations significantly.
How do hackers exploit the adoption of new technologies?
-Hackers stay updated on new technologies and exploit them to disrupt, attack, and cause damage for various reasons, such as financial gain or to cause chaos, highlighting the need for robust cybersecurity measures.
What are the different perspectives from which the course deals with cybersecurity?
-The course deals with cybersecurity from multiple perspectives: as a technological issue, a management issue, and a governance issue, covering aspects like governance, risk, and compliance.
What is the significance of planning in the context of cybersecurity?
-Planning is significant in cybersecurity as it involves both contingency planning for when things go wrong, such as ransomware attacks, and proactive risk management to evaluate potential threats and plan preventive measures.
How does the course approach the management of cyber assets?
-The course approaches the management of cyber assets by discussing the fundamentals of management, including planning, risk evaluation, and the implementation of protective measures to secure these assets.
What role do technologies play in protecting cyber assets according to the course?
-Technologies play a dual role in protecting cyber assets: they can be challenged or destroyed by cyber threats, but they are also essential tools for implementing protective measures, such as cryptography and other cybersecurity technologies.
What are some of the current technologies discussed in the course for cybersecurity?
-The course discusses recent developments in cybersecurity technologies, including cryptography, and also features an industry expert to share current technologies in use for cybersecurity.
Why is information privacy an important aspect of the course?
-Information privacy is important because data is often the target of cyber attacks, and there is significant value attached to individual data. The course builds the concept of privacy from fundamentals and discusses current developments and regulations worldwide.
What is the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPPD) mentioned in the script?
-The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPPD) is an anticipated legislation in India aimed at protecting individual information privacy, reflecting the government's recognition of the importance of safeguarding personal data in the digital age.
Who should consider taking this course on cybersecurity and privacy?
-The course is suitable for those who use technology, those responsible for managing technology, and anyone who has an interest in understanding and addressing the cybersecurity challenges in today's digital world.
Outlines
🌐 Cyber Security Challenges and Importance
The first paragraph introduces the course on cyber security and privacy, focusing on the darker aspects of the cyber world. It emphasizes how technology, while beneficial, also presents significant challenges, particularly from hackers who exploit new technologies for disruptive purposes. The course aims to raise awareness about these challenges, especially for managers and security professionals. It covers cyber security and privacy from a managerial perspective, considering governance, risk, and compliance. The paragraph also discusses the importance of planning for cyber security, including contingency planning for when attacks occur and preventive measures to protect cyber assets.
🔐 Cyber Security Planning and Technologies
The second paragraph delves deeper into the course's content, highlighting the dual nature of technology as both a potential threat and a means of protection. It discusses the importance of risk management in cyber security planning, focusing on preventive measures rather than reactive ones. The course also covers various standards for implementing cyber security plans. Furthermore, it explores the latest technologies available for protecting cyber assets, such as cryptography, and includes insights from industry experts on current cyber security practices. The paragraph transitions from cyber security to information privacy, discussing the value of individual data and the growing need for regulations like GDPR and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. It concludes by emphasizing the responsibility of governments and organizations to protect privacy and the role of technology in achieving this.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Cyber Security
💡Privacy
💡Digital Assets
💡Hackers
💡Cyber Attacks
💡Governance
💡Risk Management
💡Cryptography
💡Information Privacy
💡Contingency Planning
💡Residual Risk
Highlights
Cyber security and privacy are crucial in the digital age.
Technology has potential to ease life and increase efficiency but also poses risks.
Hackers are continuously updating their methods to disrupt and attack technology.
The course aims to generate awareness about cyber security challenges.
Cyber security is viewed as a management and governance issue.
Governance, risk, and compliance are critical aspects of cyber security.
The course takes a managerial perspective on technology challenges.
Technology's dual role as a protector and a target is discussed.
Cyber security planning involves contingency planning for potential attacks.
Risk management is key to evaluating and protecting cyber assets.
The course covers standards useful for implementing cyber security plans.
Cyber security technologies, especially for protection, are explored.
Cryptography and recent developments in cyber security technologies are discussed.
An industry expert will share current technologies used for cyber security.
Information privacy is a significant aspect of the course.
Data is often the target of cyber attacks, emphasizing the need for privacy.
The course covers the fundamentals of privacy and information privacy.
Regulations like GDPR and India's DPDP are discussed in the context of privacy.
The course also looks at cyber security from an economic and strategic perspective.
The course is beneficial for those who use and are responsible for technology.
Transcripts
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cyber security and privacy
this course is about the dark side of
the cyber world
cyber Technologies or the cyber world
has emerged extensively in the current
times in the Contemporary world we all
use technology digital Technologies it's
not just human beings in as one entity
but people in groups people in
organizations people in government we
use technology in different contexts and
they the technology has huge potential
to ease our life and also increase
efficiency and effectiveness of work but
at the same time there is a dark side to
it
as the adoption of Technology grows so
are the challenges that are facing the
use of Technologies especially from the
Dark World hackers get updated on the
new technologies and they try to disrupt
attack and cause damage to technology
for various reasons ok so ah unless you
secure your technology unless you secure
your digital assets
your entire business or your entire
organization May collapse if you are
very much dependent on digital
Technologies recent cases or recent
incidents through light on the potential
of cyber
attacks on disrupting and destroying the
digital world we increasingly hear about
drones and how they destroy assets not
only physical assets but even human
beings we also hear about other kinds of
cyber attacks ah threats that are
increasing in the cyber world
and the purpose of this course ah is
multi-fold one is to generate awareness
about the
um the about the dark side of the
digital world especially for uh
practicing managers and cyber Security
Professionals it is important to
understand what is uh what are the cyber
security challenges the other aspect of
the course is that this course deals
with cyber security and privacy not from
a technological point of view alone but
it also looks at cyber security as a
management issue as a governance issue
so governance risk and
complaints ah are three critical aspects
of cyber security
from a managerial perspective so this
course takes the administrative or
managerial perspective and also looks at
technology that is challenged or that
can be destroyed and technology is also
seen as a source for protecting
Technologies so the the two-fold ah role
of Technology would be dealt with in
this course okay there is another aspect
to this course which is a pure
management of cyber assets so and secure
securing cyber assets so for that
actually we go to fundamental lessons of
management where planning plays an
important role so we look at cyber
security planning from two perspectives
one is the contingency planning where ah
the basic assumption is that things can
go wrong and incidence can happen Cyber
attack can happen somebody can take
control of your machine and ask for
money you know the ransomware attacks
which are growing increasingly today so
in this kind of context when an attack
happens
how can an organization get its
technology restored to a normal
condition how fast it can recover so
that is the contingency planning and
impact analysis ah etcetera OK that is
one aspect of planning there are other
aspect of planning is to look at Cyber
assets as assets to be protected and
therefore you actually take a risk
management perspective evaluate
the value of each of the assets and what
are the potential threats that can
actually happen and what what are the
probabilities and you try to arrive at
certain
quantitative or qualitative ah estimate
of so called residual risk and then plan
management action based on what should
be done for each asset so that is
actually a planning
based on risk management okay risk
perspective the other is ah so here we
do not assume that ah something has
already happened but the it is more ah
it is not reactive but more ah
preventive in nature ok so we D this
course deals with both the aspects of
cyber security planning and it also
covers certain standards that are useful
in implementing this kind of plans and
then subsequently this course
also deals with cyber security
Technologies especially from a
protection point of view what are the
technologies that are available to
protect cyber assets so in that context
we will be discussing cryptography and
recent developments in cyber security
Technologies okay we will also be having
a industry expert to share current
technologies that are at use for cyber
security
so alongside another aspect of this
course is information privacy so we move
from cyber security to information
privacy because ah oftentimes what is at
risk is data okay it is the data that
the hikers often steal okay so there is
a value to individuals data okay so we
build the concept of privacy from
fundamentals what is privacy what is
information privacy and what are the
current developments that are related to
information privacy worldwide we hear
about regulations that are enacted in
different parts of the world in the
context of growing use of Information
Technology by individuals and
organizations and government so we see
in India we are waiting for a an act
called digital personal data protection
act okay called dpdp which is expected
ah to become a low various is shown so
Indian government you can see is very
conscious of the importance of
information privacy of individuals the
the Supreme Court of India upheld
privacy as a fundamental right so these
are current developments you know as
technology becomes pervasive the
vulnerability of individuals grow and it
becomes the responsibility of
governments to protect it and how do you
actually protect uh privacy it is using
technology so you see the role of
technology or cyber security is also to
protect information privacy and then who
is responsible for it what are the diff
who are the different stakeholders
involved and what do what what does
regulation do in different parts of the
world right from Europe gdpr and India's
dpdp and so on and so we we also look at
cyber security and Technology from
managerial economic and strategy
perspective ok so who should take this
course those who use technology and
those who are responsible for technology
and who have over ah use technology
today would benefit from this course so
warm welcome to this course on cyber
security and privacy thank you
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