Miirage

There is a certain amount of fear associated with the advent of Zero Day threats in the cyber world. This fear stems from something that has forever been a worry, that of coming across a malicious piece of programming which has no cure or solution. A zero day threat essentially means a piece of malicious programming which causes harm to an owner’s requirement of his or her computer system. This may cause mindless destruction on the system or even a small advantage for the one who has coded the piece of program. Either way, it marks a serious problem for the one, whose systems are attacked.

The reason why it is called zero day is because it attacks systems on a day that is well before the day when a programmer has an idea of what the program code is like or in logical terms the 0^th day of the programmers understanding. How do you fight that which you do not understand? The answer to that may sound simple but the execution part of it can cripple you. To tackle a Zero day threat, organizations need to ensure that their software programs are checked for any sort of loophole that may allow such threats to attack. The art of prediction may be imprecise but is also effective when it comes to cyber security.

While most Zero Day threats are not generic in nature, it is also a fact that these threats do have some piece of common programming as only a few of them look to cause destruction blindly for which there can be scope for innovation in programming such code. Yet, the fear would lie in tackling those very programs, which may cause cyber meltdown. Either way, it is best to ensure that a program has most, if not all, its loopholes covered by a team of good programmers to ensure the safety of the customer’s computer systems.