A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF KEY FACTORS CAUSING VARIOUS KINDS OF CYBER-ATTACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE’S

Abstract

Currently, the majority of the activities conducted by the educational institution and the interactions that are associated with it at all levels—involving persons, researchers, and other stakeholders—take place online mode. Cybercriminals have recently been targeting IT infrastructure, IT resources, and online application portals in a number of reputable educational institutions and government agencies across the globe.This has become a challenging issue for safeguarding the electronic information against cyber attacks.  Cyber-attacks are intended to do harm to these educational institutions by stealing research data and other pertinent information, as well as causing damage to their IT infrastructures. Some of the harms are:  Data distribution services (DDS), computer infections, knowledge gaps, and other attack vectors. Different associations utilize different answers for forestall harm brought about by digital assaults. Network safety follows constant data on the most recent IT information. In order to cater these issues, different strategies had been proposed by specialists all over the planet to forestall digital assaults or decrease the harm brought about by them. A portion of the strategies are in the functional stage and others are in the review stage. The point of this study is to overview and extensively survey the standard advances introduced in the field of digital protection and to explore the research possibility to find out the difficulties, shortcomings and qualities of the proposed strategies. Various sorts of new digital assaults are being investigated exhaustively across the globe. Standard security systems are examined, alongside the historical backdrop of network protection and early age techniques. Also, arising patterns and late advancements in digital protection, as well as security dangers and difficulties, are presented. It is stated that the extensive survey related to IT and digital protection will be helpful in digging out the issues and challenges related to cyber attacks and also to resolve these.

Keywords: IT security, Electronic information, cyber attacks, threats and emerging trends.