Those costs, according to Cohen, break down to half a million dollars just for residential protection and surveillance that would include 24-hour security monitoring with a constantly streaming network of cameras.

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There are precautions such as implementing secure passwords, network security awareness, exercising discernment with applications, monitoring accounts, and locking devices that all consumers should do on their own.

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Keeping them properly configured, updated with the latest software from the vendor and monitoring the logs they generate is the primary duty of the network security team.

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The NYPD also maintains a "Ring of Steel, " a network of 4, 000 sophisticated security cameras that feed information into a central monitoring system to detect questionable or unlawful activity.

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Evans and Jamison emphasized that the program would create real-time network monitoring of malicious activity, limit the number of access points to government networks and standardize government security across all federal systems.

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