A Comprehensive Study of Contemporary Tools and Techniques in the Realm of Cyber Security

The Inherent Weaknesses in the cyber space and ever escalating cyber-attacks tend to continuously threaten the National Security, economy and Privacy. More than fifty countries, around the world, have framed their Cyber Security Strategies to address the serious issues of National Cyber Security. A cyber security strategy is particularly meant to be securing the national cyberspace from malicious cyber threat courses, but due to the unpredictable threat background, considerable variations can be seen in the invasive and defensive actions and methods adopted by different country.

This research paper analysis and Compares Cyber Security tools and techniques, also discusses about developed and developing countries with their identified standards, aims and explanation of cyber awareness, characterization of the cyber threats, and legislative measures, capacity building programs etc. The majority of the strategies have described the need of assigning an official body for leading the cyber security tasks at the national level and establishment of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) to fight cyber-attacks targeting national cyberspace.