eli5 what is cybersecurity?
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*Cybersecurity*, *Information Security* and *IT Security* are related terms with sometimes a lot of overlap, but a specific focus.
*IT Security* focusses on securing IT assets, mainly technology and infrastructure. (Servers, networks, …) Both physical and virtual assets.
*Information Security* focusses on protecting the business information. Ensuring files are secured, which requires the IT systems are secure, but also covers the business processes handling these information assets, etc.
*Cybersecurity* is even more general and is the practice of deploying people, policies, processes and technologies to keep it secure.
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