The question may be "How can we ensure cyber Safety in today's global environment".

Hello Eduard Babulak

I think those articles below can assist you in some way .

https://ec.europa.eu/research/sam/pdf/sam_cybersecurity_report.pdf

Article Cyber Security Challenges in Smart Cities: Safety, security ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-privacy/

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8013

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223209/

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1601/1601.03921.pdf

https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-publications/ACS_Cybersecurity_Guide.pdf

The new European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its impact on organizations worldwide from 25th May 2018

Regards!

In India the Government has notified the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011; which deal with protection of Sensitive personal data or information of a person.

Under section 72A of the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000, disclosure of information, knowingly and intentionally, without the consent of the person concerned and in breach of the lawful contract has been also made punishable with imprisonment for a term extending to three years and fine extending to US$ 8,000 approx.

The main focus on privacy , personal information , and bank related information

It seems that with the recent Facebook case, the issues of Privacy vs Security will become major focus for research, innovation and development of interconnected world. Value of Privacy is essential. However, in support of National Security regardless which country, the Privacy may become compromised to some extend due to Government Security Standards and Policies.

Dear Eduard Babulak,

I propose the following research questions:

What do you think about the security of data transfer due to the development of Internet of Things technology?

Is technology corporations strengthening their dominance over entire communities of users of technological devices through technology development?

Will the risk of hackers taking control of various information technology devices, including smart city, increase in the future?

Will the risk of public and state security increase if the hackers take control over the majority of devices connected to the Internet?

Will cybercrime and cyber security change its character in connection with the development of smart city information technologies, including smart home, smart devices?

Best wishes

I also propose the following research probe:

Are ransomware viruses attacking again?

Antivirus programs signal this, but are the new attacks appearing, or maybe the companies that produce antivirus software use this kind of alerts mainly to stimulate consumers to buy these applications?

Is the information about the growing threat from the activities of cybercriminals also partly a result of marketing activities of antivirus software vendors?

Cybercriminal attacks involving various types of viruses occur on a daily basis in various places around the globe.

However, large-scale attacks on the global scale and publicized in the media are probably much rarer.

An example was the type of cybercriminals, which was carried out on a large scale in mid-2017, which was mainly targeted at large public and financial institutions and corporations operating in Ukraine, but quickly spread over the world through capital and business links between companies.

Then ransomware viruses known only often in the environments of security specialists, among computer scientists analyzing cybercriminal attacks, has been publicized in the media in many countries and has become a global and public problem.

In this situation, sales revenues and profits of companies producing antivirus software are growing significantly.

Recently, some of these antivirus programs inform that the threat of cybercriminal attacks involving ransomware is growing.

Is it a real increase in the risk of cybercrime or a new form of marketing for companies that produce antivirus software?

Or both?

What information about users of social media websites have technology companies that run these social media portals?

Online technology companies that run social media portals such as Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Tweeter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, etc. collect large amounts of data about Internet users from various websites, including mainly users of these social media portals.

Google Group collects this type of information about Internet users based on the Google web search service and other shared information services, including Google Drive, Gmail, etc.

Information on Internet users is collected, among others, by the so-called cookies installed in Internet browsers.

In addition, large Internet technology companies have the ability to combine information downloaded from various Internet sources, from various information services into one avatar, which is an electronic equivalent of a given Internet user and is built from Big Data database systems.

For the needs of these considerations, the issue of the security of classified data stored in Big Data database systems run by internet technology companies managing social media portals should be added.

There have been frequent thefts made by cybercriminals who, from these Big Data systems, stole classified and sensitive information about hundreds of thousands or millions of users of particular social media portals.

The development of social media portals therefore generates an increased risk of theft of data on users of social media portals.

On the other hand, technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc. have the ability to obtain classified, sensitive and personal information from the Internet about the users of websites, including search engines and social media portals, who use these information services.

These companies in their Big Data database systems are gradually expanding the scope of data related to Internet users and are constantly expanding the avatars mentioned above, ie electronic equivalents of individual Internet users.

Therefore, the colloquial wording was created: "If you are not on the Internet, you do not exist."

There is one more issue, namely the above-mentioned activity of internet technology companies expanding their information resources Big Data and orz contained in these resources avatars of individual Internet users, how does this correlate with the legal protection of personal data in individual countries?

In view of the above, I am asking you to answer the following question:

Does anyone of you research the scope of information from which are built avatars of individual users of social media portals, which are created and developed in Big Data database systems managed by online technology companies running these social media portals?

Unfortunately, despite the assurances of companies that run social media portals, the information contained on these websites is not always fully secured against the activities of cybercriminals.

In addition, the issue of downloading data from social media portals by large companies to Big Data database systems should be added in order to process them for marketing purposes.

The issue of privacy in social media is very important and is related to the security of personal information. Privacy is at risk in terms of information posted on social media portals.

Is the risk of cybercriminal attacks on Big Data database systems containing personal data of social media portal users growing?

The field of research and business applications in the field of obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data database systems has been developing strongly for several years.

There were hacking theft of personal, sensitive and secret data regarding users of social networks.

Are the results of research known, or are you familiar with publications describing risk management processes in the area of obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data systems run by technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc.

Technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc. have the ability to obtain classified, sensitive and personal data from the Internet about the users of websites, including search engines and social media portals, who use these information services.

For the needs of these considerations, the issue of the security of classified data stored in Big Data database systems run by internet technology companies managing social media portals should be added.

There have been frequent thefts made by cybercriminals who, from these Big Data systems, stole classified and sensitive information about hundreds of thousands or millions of users of particular social media portals.

The development of social media portals therefore generates an increased risk of theft of data on users of social media portals.

Therefore, technological internet companies that run social media portals but also other companies that collect large amounts of data about users of specific, information services should continually develop and improve risk management systems for potential data loss from Big Data information resources.

Due to the above, in many companies, especially in large corporations, integrated risk management systems are built and improved.

Integrated risk management systems combine risk management processes in various areas of a company, institution or other organization.

One of the areas of risk management, the importance of which in many companies is growing, is risk management in the area of obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data database systems.

In connection with the development of cybercrime on the Internet, the security systems for transfer and processing of data, financial transactions, electronic banking, etc. carried out on the Internet are improved. In addition to electronic banking, the key information security in the internal IT systems of central state institutions is protected. Cybercriminal attacks on cyber-banking systems and hacker attacks aimed at companies to extort ransom for decrypting data encrypted by computer viruses on disks (cybercriminal ransomware attacks) and hack attacks from abroad on key central institutions, ministries and other institutions of the public administration sector and enterprises of strategic branches of the national economy.

In view of the above, I propose the following research questions:

Do you think, for security reasons, everything that happens on the Internet should be analyzed by the public security services?