Cybersecurity: Know four kinds of cyber-attacks

As we know, enterprises have to constantly upgrade their data security infrastructure to keep network threats at bay. In order to do so, understanding the various types of cyber-attacks that are commonly used by corporate hackers promises to be a decent start. According to Sonit Jain, CEO of Mumbai-based cybersecurity firm, GajShield Infotech, businesses can get a few steps ahead of the bad guys just by knowing some of the more frequent types of network threats. He lists four common cyber-attack types that your company may face (or may have faced already):

Man-in-the-middle attacks
Man-in-the middle attacks are sneaky cyber-attacks that involve hackers snooping on your data while it is being transmitted through the communication channel between the sender and receiver of a file. Such attacks can be prevented by using network firewalls to block them out from the data networks altogether.