The Vulnerability and Safety of Computing Devices on the Internet

The Internet, a collection of inter-connected computing devices on a global scale, has come to stay with its inevitable benefits and risks.Cybersecurity, a framework that portrays the safeguarding of computing devices from cyberattacks, is vital in ensuring one's safety while surfing the net for services.The objectives of this study are to identify some of the key constraints to cybersecurity which comes in the form of cyberattacks, its effects on their victims, and to highlight the key proactive preventive measures as well as proffering some remedies.The methodology undertaken in this study is the use of questionnaires collaborated with existing literatures to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the outcome.The findings show that more awareness need to be created on why users need to -have backups of their essential data, terminate their online sessions once done, avoid public networks; and possibly subscribe to a Virtual Private Network (VPN).