History of cybersecurity

 Safeguarding data confined just within a computer, without any network involvement, also falls under the purview of cybersecurity.

John von Neumann initially proposed the concept of self-replicating computer programs in 1949, coinciding with the public disclosure of the theoretical foundation of computer viruses.

the act of gaining unauthorized access

The first objective of the emerging field of cybersecurity is to effectively eliminate any illicit software application ( that can represent a virus, a threat to the system's working capacity or data )