Abstract

This paper reviewed the implications, challenges and the effects of cybercrimes and cybersecurity in the society. It fully defined cybersecurity based on governmental and national view, industrial view and academic view. From this it was concluded that cyber security and cyber-attack is best defined and prevented based on the field of research. This paper review 27 articles on cyber security and cybercrimes and it showed that cyber security is a complex task that relies on domain knowledge and requires cognitive abilities to determine possible threats from large amounts of network data. This study investigates how knowledge in network operations and information security influence the detection of intrusions in a simple network. This research paper also reviewed different strategies used by different researchers to prevent cyber-attack in different areas of work and also exposed the most recent used cyber security attacks, preventions, future threats and prospective ways to avoid cyber-attacks.