A study of cyber security practices with respect to use of firewall and IDPS in educational institutions in Pune area

Abstract

Security measures are of prime importance to ensure safety and reliability in fact it has become of paramount importance for existential support. Hacking of data and information has become almost a routine and regular aspect in case of IT/ITES industries as well as educational institutions. Before we think to combat such a situation; to avoid both predictable and unpredictable loss, danger and risk associated, tangible and intangible factors, we have to strategize in keeping cool in the heat of battle and find out the causes attributing to the same; so proactive action be taken to exterminate the same. The researchers feel to encircle parameter to have an in-depth insight such as – integrity of network connections and components, telecommunication issues, firewall, filtering, intrusion detection and prevention system, and network maintenance. These are in fact intra and interrelated.