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CS627 - Cyber Security · Lec#1: · Importance of Cyber Security

• Mobile Phones

•Total population of Pakistan (2020) → 219,067,896

• Number of mobile phone users in Pakistan has reached 161.183 million, as of May 2019.
• Smart phones
• Traditional phones: • SMS / Call Scams

Importance of Cyber Security

• Drones
• Here's How Hackers Could Have Spied On Your DJI Drone Account
• Health / Medical
• Pacemaker: a device for stimulating the heart muscle and regulating its contractions.
• Robotic Surgeons
• 5 Medical Robots Making a Difference in Healthcare

Remote Surgery

• China completes world’s first 5G remote surgery in test on animal
• Robot Helps Perform First Long-Distance Heart Surgery
• A surgeon in India performed the first remote heart operation on a patient 20 miles away. 179/robot-performs-first-long-distance- heart-surgery

The field of ‘Cyber Security’ is becoming more important due to increased reliance on

• computer systems
• the Internet
• wireless network standards
• such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• due to the growth of "smart" devices
• including smartphones , televisions , and the " Internet of things ".
• Owing to its complexity, both in terms of politics and technology, cybersecurity is also one of the major challenges in the contemporary world.
• Ease of use results in increasing underlying complexity

What is Cyber Security?

• Cyber

Relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.

• Cyberspace is a term for virtual reality coined by William Gibson.
• Cyber- is derived from "cybernetic ",

[ ] which comes from the Greek word κυβερνητικός meaning ’skilled in steering or governing’. • Pronunciation:

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