Cybersecurity in the Age of Emerging Technologies: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

The digital landscape has become increasingly complicated and linked as emerging technologies have advanced, offering considerable difficulties to cybersecurity. The purpose of this study is to investigate the changing nature of cybersecurity in the age of developing technologies and to provide potential solutions to the accompanying difficulties. The introduction presents a summary of today's cybersecurity scene, emphasizing the rising reliance on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. These technologies have changed many industries, but they also present new weaknesses and threats that hackers can exploit. The study then goes into the issues raised by these new technologies. The authors investigate the weaknesses in artificial intelligence systems, such as adversarial assaults and data poisoning. The Internet of Things raises worries about poor authentication, unsecured communication protocols, and botnet attacks. Smart contracts, consensus processes, and privacy concerns all pose security challenges for blockchain technology. Data breaches, insider threats, and shared infrastructure hazards are all challenges that cloud computing raises. To address these issues, the study offers a number of viable solutions. Adopting a holistic and proactive approach to cybersecurity, stressing the integration of security measures across the whole lifecycle of developing technologies, is one of them. To protect sensitive data, strong encryption methods, multi-factor authentication, and secure communication protocols must be used.