FUW TRENDS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(A Peer Review Journal)
e–ISSN: 2408–5162; p–ISSN: 2048–5170
keywords: Vulnerabilities, internet, cyber-attack, cybercrime, hackers, security, strategy.
There exist numerous software tools on the Internet both for security and attack. These tools are available as open source (freeware) for anyone including malicious hackers to access. The question is how to secure the Internet in the midst of all the available tools. The simple answer is strategy. This study avoids reinventing the wheel and concentrates on strategy. The strategy adopted is a model called the Automated Intelligent Vulnerability Insurance system, which assembles the decentralized security tool to form a centralized security interface that minimizes the end users involvement. The system is modelled and implemented using a web-based virtual internet laboratory, which serves as an interface between the user and the Internet. Implementing this model implies that internet users can worry less about trying to install updates and security patches against vulnerability and the security tools use to counterany cyber-attack. The model produces a higher security against cybercrime and reduces the error that can be made by the users ignorance. This research also exposes existing cyber technologies employed by hackers to exploit vulnerable systems and various cyber-attacks.
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