Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Description (Specifications)

Cybersecurity is the provision of security specifically within the virtual spaces that exist in Computer systems.

Hardware

While any (or indeed every) Computer requires Cybersecurity, specialist Cyberdecks exist to aid the penetration of that security in Information Warfare.

Software

There are generally two forms of security software:-

• Security Software
• Intrusion Software

These two forms are the shield and sword of Information Warfare.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Golden Age

Computers and their Cybersecurity have always been a minefield and this was just as true in the Golden Age of the Third Imperium as at any previous time. Indeed, Computers were invented to help in Information Warfare; Information Warfare was not created for breaking Computers.

The New Era

The arrival of Virus changed the ecology of Cyberspace by adding sharks to the goldfish pond. It was like the "Invasion of the Body-Snatchers". Post Virus security systems worked very differently to pre-Virus ones, but Virus distribution was not magic and could be prevented with appropriate physical and Cybersecurity. Most of the damage caused by Virus was not caused by super-powerful computers hacking lesser ones but by co-opted lesser ones hacking each other.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: BackworldTraveller