Digital Convergence is the main reason of underlying components of digital technology and their features such as video , voice, pictures, text, broadcasts, streaming media presentation, global connectivity etc. When all these features and the abilities from multiple electronic systems are merged to enable individuals interact, collaborate, play and share information in many different ways.
Now we discuss cyber-crime. A crime is considered as a ‘cyber crime’ if the reason behind committing crime involved the use of the Internet or web services and
1. The attack is done to harm the data or other digital material stored on a device which is connected to Internet.
2. The attack is done to destroy the services by the remote systems.
As the technology is evolving at an extremely fast pace, Cyber-security is playing an extremely important role in more and more institutions. Integrating operations and new technology will need considering new sound concepts, funds, and open interactions between industry and government.
Thus increasing Cyber-security is a major issue faced by the security practitioners. Now, so that a connectivity is established between all the machines and people on the planet, the technical industry is evolving rapidly and thus it gave rise to ‘Internet of Everything’.
Moreover, the military services are integrating information technology position with traditional operational skills such as each military branch must develop the capability to support defense cyber operations and cyber attacks. Therefore, the military must integrate cyber-security into both training and operations without any issues.
Consider cloud computing, which has shown growth in the military in the year 2014. When the huge amount of data is combined with comparatively small budgets, dependency on cloud computing increases. But if we are moving our data to the cloud, one would need a reliable access and hence greater cyber security.
Crimes related to social networking sites -The consumers tend to click on a link in an email for their favorite brands. And at times the results are quite unexpected. The spam messages pop up from popular social networks. The malware virus is installed on user’s when they click on contaminated site. For Eg: The following messages were sent:
• ‘connect on LinkedIn’
• ‘You have 6 friend requests’
Cyber-crime is also leading to real world crime along with online crimes. This is because now a days, people “over-share” their personal information across various social platforms like what’s app, facebook etc. For Eg: - A survey has shown that t 35% users post their plans for vacation on social networking sites which exaggerates the crime rate.
We also need fresh ideas to consider Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as drones are being increasingly used for various purposes like communications relays that are used to extend line-of- sight radio and data links. Such an aerial solution helps to reduce the dependence on expensive satellites. But for the UAVs become successful in the skies, we need better control on the networks to prevent collision of aircrafts( manned or unmanned), w3hich could also be a planned one(by the cyber-attackers).
Thus the rapid growth in cyber security threats is a result of convergence. It has brought different types of criminal together in one space be it fraudsters in finance or in communications service, hackers, spies and extremists. So, there is a need of a converged response, both at the organizational level and above.
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