STAY UNITED TO  CURB CYBERTERRORISM AT THE WORKPLACE

     With the rapid evolvement of Internet, everyone have to be prepared to keep themselves and their workplace secure. If we do not join hands together, our national security would be at stake.

     In an organization, every single employee should be educate in regards of cyberterrorism. Basically, they should be given a first hand on how they should handle any suspicious activity they encounter during their day to day task involving computer
networks. They should be able to alert the relevant team or authorities when there is a data leakage or unauthorised users accessing their computer systems.

      Sensitive information or data should be handled delicately as the risk or the threat of the impact is higher. Apart from that, employees must be educated as to how they are able to maintain or keep their work secure from cyberterrorism. 

     When the right prevention are kept in place, employees know what is the next course of action to mitigate the risk of being the target of cyber attackers.
     

     

https://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/Docs/State%20Security/Cyberterrorism%20-%20sum%20of%20all%20fears.pdf

CYBERTERRORISM: THE SUM OF ALL FEARS?

     In this research conducted by United States Institute of Peace, USA and University of Haifa, Israel, stressed that cyberterrorism is an attractive option for modern terrorists. The threat from cyberterrorism is very alarming. There are many threats mentioned in this research. Most of it are related to 9/11 attacks.  

     What can cyberterrorists do?

• disrupt the financial institutions
• attack air traffic control systems
• alter the formulas of medication 
• remotely-change the pressure in the gas lines 

     In summary, the authors mentioned that terrorists groups are making wide use of the Internet and they are moving towards cyberterrorism.
     

STEGANOGRAPHY TOOLS

     What is steganography? Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, image or video within another file, message, image or video. In layman term, steganography is the science of hiding information. 
     
     Basically, what happens in stenography is when a secret message is sent to other party, normal person would not be able to know what is the real message. Any individual can hide information in any kind of file.  

     Steganography tools enables a user to embed hidden data inside a carrier file, such as an image or video, and later extract the data. Nowadays, steganography tools are being widely used in the cyberterrorism. Steganography is supporting global terrorism.

     In recent events happening around us, many terrorist groups are sharing their information through embedding it into image files without being able to be traced by anyone apart from their sources. They are sharing these images over the email. 

http://www.rmmagazine.com/2012/10/05/understanding-cyberterrorism/

UNDERSTANDING CYBERTERRORISM

     After going thru the article, the author had stressed several matters pertaining cyberterrorism. First of all, she highlighted the definition of cyberterrorism would keep on changing due to the evolving technological age. Furthermore, it is complicated to define something so intangible.

     The author also mentioned about the damages that cyberterrorism can do to anyone. There are few examples such as a power plant can be taken offline, a company’s finances could be wrecked and a region’s ability to communicate wiped out. 

IMPACT - INTERNATIONAL MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP AGAINST CYBER THREATS


     The International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) is headquartered in Cyberjaya. It serves as the key partner of the United Nations' (UN) specialised agency for ICTs, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Objective of IMPACT

• serves as politically neutral global platform that brings together governments of the world, industry and academia to enhance the global community's capabilities in dealing with cyber threats. 

COUNTERING CYBERTERRORISM

     There are many ways that we can combat cyberterrorism. Before any plans are being implemented, everyone should work as a team and stay united in order to prevent the cyberterrorism to enter into our grid. As we all know the effects of cyberterrorism is pretty much high and there should be a solution or guideline to ambush these hackers.

     Many large scale multinational companies are very much familiar with the term business continuity plan or better known as BCP. In preparations of combating cyberterrorism, business continuity has proven to be crucial in every aspect of an organization. For an example, if there is cyber attack in one of the unit or department, the business continuity plan ensures that the day-to-day operations will run smoothly at another site without any disruption. Business continuity plan can also be said as a backup for an organization.

     Policies and procedures in an organization or government should be strict in order to prevent this unlawful act. Everyone needs to be guided or trained on how they should activate or raise an enquiry when there is a system issue which might be related to cyberterrorism. Procedures and policies need to be updated on a timely manner so that it is asynchronous with the latest technologies.

     Personal behavior or attitude also plays an active part in preventing cyberterrorism. Each one of use has to help each other to counteract the threats caused by this negative destruction. If you are working for an important organization or the government, you should be responsible and be prepared for everything.

     In summary, there are many ways we can prevent cyberterrorism from damaging our nation and save the innocent lives.

EFFECTS OF CYBERTERRORISM

1. Political instability

2. Damages of infrastructures

3. Disrupt of communications systems

4. Downturn of financial markets

5. Incite terror to the civilians