Some of the Most Important Cybersecurity Protocols

Cyber Security is a pressing matter. Several high-profile cyberattacks have compromised organizational and governmental networks, leaked data, and even influenced elections and referendums. A cybersecurity protocol is any codified action or measure designed to keep  

Protocols most often take the form of a series of coded actions that ensure the protection of data, but they can also take other forms – including human action. Cybersecurity protocols are absolutely essential if trust in the internet is to be sustained. Ecommerce, for instance, would collapse if people were not able to entrust their debit card details to a website without fear of their details being stolen. By using Syxsense, you will be able to set essential cyber security protocols in place that will protect your business from any threats and manage your interface better.

Message Integrity Protocols

Message integrity is extremely important. Making sure that the person claiming to be the sender of a message is actually that person is, of course, completely impossible. What message integrity protocols can do, however, is make sure that encrypted messages can be traced back to a confirmed device. The most common message integrity protocols combine all the bytes in a message into a secret key and produces a message digest. Theoretically, this means that messages can have confirmed origins and prevents the intercepting of messages during their transit. Any messaging service that claims to have end-to-end encryption will almost certainly follow message integrity protocols. 

FTP and SFTP

File Transfer and Secure File Transfer Protocols exist in order to protect the integrity of files as they are transferred between computers and servers. If files were able to be intercepted between computers and servers, then they would be vulnerable to ‘man in the middle’ attacks – when hackers deliberately intercept files in order to steal data or impregnate them with malware. File Transfer Protocol is a legacy safeguarding measure, first conceived all the way back in the 1970s. Modern File Transfer Protocols usually adhere to Secure File Transfer Protocol standards. Commercial SFTP programs are available to organizations wanting to ensure the integrity of their networks. Secure File Transfer Programs utilize more complex encryption methods in order to keep data safer. They essentially create an encrypted ‘tunnel’ so that any files intercepted in transit would prove to be useless to malicious actors. 

VPNs

Sometimes privacy equates to security. Virtual Private Networks are designed to create an encrypted private network that obscures the IP address of a computer user. They are useful for evading IP-based surveillance and hacking. Virtual Private Networks typically encrypt all of the data exchanged by a user – if a hacker were to get ahold of sensitive data it would be impossible to exploit without a decryption key. Virtual Private Networks are immensely popular in countries where draconian security measures stifle public dissent. 1 In 5 internet users in the People’s Republic of China are VPN customers because there is a widespread fear of government surveillance.