The Importance of Cyber Security awareness in Third World Countries

Importance of cyber security awareness in the third world countries
With the emergence of technology as one of the major driving tools in the field of organizational developments, a plethora of technical advancements have taken place across the world. Each development in any field comes with certain flaws in terms of its security policies or error in economic methodologies which need to be addressed and rectified with effective methods in order for the system to develop further.

Importance of cyber security

Cyber security has emerged to be an effective tool in protecting the privacy of the enormous amount of data stored on computers and other devices by the government, industrial organizations, financial, corporate and medical organizations. Computer security hence has become a major methodology in the field of cyber security. Sensitive/personal or confidential data needs to be secured for it may have negative consequences once leaked. Unauthorized and unethical access to these information may lead to several harmful repercussions due to which cyber security awareness is
important for every individual irrespective of profession, gender or societal position in today’s world.

However, a very common misconception happens to exist due to which many people consider cyber security to be something that only elite and rich industrial personalities need to deal with. Specifically in the third world countries like India, Bangladesh people barely talked about this for years. Therefore, the need for every individual residing in a society to have a basic knowledge about cyber security came into existence after years of research and experimentation in this field by hundreds of experts.

Ethical hacking and its importance

Although the word hacking constantly pops up with an image of some unethical and illegal activities in minds, there is a whole legal methodology which enables and increases data security and privacy. Companies and organizations literally hire ethical hackers in order to ensure their personal data privacy.

It took a huge amount of cybercrimes to create a sense of awareness about the importance of ethical hacking in people. Chiefly the third world countries always lacked awareness of the importance of such things but on an optimistic note, there are enormous amount of websites and organizations that exist to make people aware about these things in a simple yet convincingly logical way.

Bug Bounty awareness

With the growing rate of cybercriminals, a fearful need to protect important data is becoming more and more essential for the organizations to grow in a harmless way. With the bug bounty program, ethical hackers tend to help with finding the vulnerabilities in the system before the unauthorized access is made by cybercriminals.

A bug bounty program consists of several (somewhat risky) steps to ensure the dismissal of the probable illegal and unauthorized access to the private data of an organization.

Jobs and opportunities in India

After U.S and China, the highest numbers of internet users are from India with over 370 million mobile subscriptions with internet connection.

The growing rate of dependency upon technology has made it essential to ensure data privacy. This has led to a demand for cyber experts in India which has created a new domain of experimentation and research among the youth of the country. It has become a significant and important part of the education system in India. The rate in which pursuing a career in cyber security in India has increased makes the growing necessity of cyber experts clearly evident. Another reason why India is one of the major countries in need of cyber experts is its population. A huge number of people have access to internet which leads to the increasing cybercrime rate, eventually causing a dire need of cyber experts who can help to create an improved and better scenario for people to survive.

– Suvasree Bandyopadhyay