The benefits of cyber security in our society are great; businesses, organizations, industries and other aspects of society are facing a lot of cyber-attacks daily; these attacks can make them shut down completely but cyber security contributes positively to the protection or prevention of such incidents.
One of the advantages of implementing good cyber security mechanisms, policies and plans in an organization is that productivities increase because viruses, malware or other forms of cyber-attack affect the production rate and slow down the system or even destroy the system. Note other organizations assets can also be affected if an attack takes place. Effective cyber security in any organisation also increases the turnaround time.
In business settings for example, cyber security inspires customer confidence because everyone is looking for a place where their money, information or transactions is secure. There is this confidence that user has when they know that their information is safe, and this and many more especially the privacy of users can only be achieved if there is a strong cyber security mechanism on the ground.
We are gradually moving into automated cars, and trains, the future of cars will be automated cars with good artificial intelligent capacity, in fact in the medical field computer are used for treating patients, robots are designed to do a lot of human roles with a high level of efficiency. Traffic light systems for example which help to reduce traffic jams also make use of computers. So it is very necessary to have in place a good cyber security mechanism to keep these things safe from cyber attacks. Just imagine a situation where the central network of a country or location is compromised as a result of a cyberattack, a lot of accidents will occur on the road and the economy essential services will be affected as a result of this attack, even it will lead to the death of many people but with good cyber security in place such attack can be prevented, so the existence of cyber security benefits our environment and economy by avoiding the break down of some of these services mentions above.
Another benefit of Cyber security is that it makes available cyber weapons to fight against cyber terrorism or cyber warfare. When talking about Cyber terrorism, it deals with the use of computer network tools to attack and shut down the critical national infrastructure in other to intimidate the government or civilians at large.
These are just a few benefits of having good cyber security in place
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