Network security – an updated perspective

Abstract

Network security is a specialized field consisting of the provisions and policies to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources as well as ensuring their availability through proper procedures. Many security devices are being developed and deployed to defend against cyber threats and to prevent unintended data breaches. In spite of all these efforts, the ‘golden age’ of cyber crime continues, as organizations around the world continue to suffer data breaches and security attacks. What kinds of threats we are facing today? How these threats are to be dealt with? The goal of this paper is to communicate an updated perspective of network security for organizations, and researchers in the field and present some recommendations to tackle the current situation of security threats.