What is a Data Breach?

Cybersecurity is mostly about Data breaches. So, lets discuss what data breach is. Data breach means releasing of personal/sensitive information whether if it’s released intentionally or unintentionally. There are many terms used for data breaches such as information disclosure, data leak/spill, and information leakage.

What are the causes of data breaches?

Data breaches are successfully exploited because of weak security in the system. Some of the ways that should be considered are updating the softwares regularly, implementing security softwares, setting up strong passwords, download only from trusted resources, use only secure URLs, backup your data.

As technology is getting updated and getting more advance, information is being saved digital which is why data breaches incidents are rising gradually. The affect of data breaches varies on how much harm it has caused. Data breaches cause damage to the company’s reputation, their expenses, and it also takes a long time to recover.