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Threats are Doing Their Knock, Knock… Are We Cyber Safe for

Real?

Milica Djekic, an Online Marketing Coordinator at Dejan SEO and the Editor-in-Chief at
Australian Science Magazine

These days we are witnessing the time when many developed countries are issuing their
warnings to possible cyber threats. It’s natural that public is getting concerned because of all of
that. But, what is the situation for real? Is there any reason for fear? As usual, security is
supposed to be at least one step ahead of the threat, so the situation appears under control at
this stage. The fact is security services must invest a lot of effort in order to maintain things
acceptable, but, as you know, that’s their purpose. In this brief talk, we plan to overview the
current situation and to explain why we should trust our security structures.

Where Are We Today?

In a recent world, there are many threats to the western societies. Many terrorists, government
and non-government hacker’s organizations intend to do harm to develop country’s critical
infrastructure (CI). Things such as government administration’s data breaches, spying on
authorities and hacking a CI are getting very frequent nowadays. Security is facing up serious
challenges today and this field needs very smart people to deal with all of these on regular
basis.

What concerns authorities these days is the fact that the bad guys could be capable to organize,
for instance, cyber sabotage to some strategically important location or they could obtain proven
information about some government activities or, even worse, they could arrange a biological or
chemical attack to some public spot using remotely-piloted devices.

All of these appear as a serious headache to modern security services, but what we need at the
moment are good countermeasures to these events.

The question here would be if a modern security is able to protect us from all of these threats.
From this perspective, it appears defense guys need to have a good learning curve and a
capacity to adapt to changes such as new sorts of threats. Malicious actors and their techniques
are getting highly sophisticated and their activities are getting very-well organized, so security
has to be capable to cope with all of those. For that reason, defense structures need quick
learners and extremely intelligent persons in order to prevent us from crime and terrorism.

Luckily, security people are certainly like that. They passed a very competitive selection; they
are trained, motivated and highly skilled individuals who can meet all of these challenges and
resolve the hardest issues. So, we should trust them, right?

SOCs as the Best Protection for Your CI

As our world was advancing in technological terms, safety and security requirements were
getting higher and more complex. Today’s period is known as a cyber age because many

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