Don’t you think nowadays apps and their development have improved the education sector? Today the market is focusing on many educational apps. The environment or the consumers are also using such apps with great interest. Time is changing and the influence of technology is also seen in the educational sector.

Here we will discuss some of the reasons why educational apps are required.

Reinforce learning Experiences

The modern e-learning apps encourage students and increase their interest in learning by making learning easy and fun. These apps have some extra features like daily quizzes and practice papers that help students improve their grades. The best thing about such apps is they make student practice daily and enhance their skills.

Enhance communication between parents and teachers

While in the educational institutes there is limited time and place for parents and teachers to interact. But with the educational apps any parent can connect to teachers anytime they wish. This increases the communication between them and helps for taking a better decision for the student. Parents will also be totally up-to-date about their children without sparing extra time to visit institutes. These apps can also be used to provide all necessary or new information regarding anything about the institute to parents or among classmates.

Access to education anywhere, anytime

With these apps, students or anyone will be able to utilize every single second of their leisure time. If you have a doubt related to anything during previous years you should wait for the next day to meet the teacher and get your query solved. But now when there is an app for this any student or anybody can solve any of their queries anytime. So now with the availability of such apps education is limitless.

Educational apps are divided into 3 major categories.

Student Management

Such educational apps promote learning which includes students in different activities like language learning, memory training and brain teasers. The best part of such an app is with a single app you can target people of multiple age groups at a time. Some of the features like assignment tracking and e-book learning make it more effective and interesting to follow.

Teaching Enhancement

The best part of these apps is that teachers can get all the learning module directly on their smartphones. They can check these apps and other details anytime they need. The teacher’s performance and dedication also increases with such apps.

Optimize institutional activities

Most of the educational institutes are also getting benefited with the help of such apps. Many educational institutes have their own apps that their students are using. This is increasing the education system, the institute and the teaching standard and professionalism. The app also helps institutes improve and monitor backend systems and incorporate the latest learning programs. This also helps in online fee management and many other activities of the institute.

Thus these educational apps are a great reform in the system. This is not only useful to students but also teachers, parents and institutes. Most of the educational institutes are coming up with such apps and the trend of development and improvement is such institutes is high. All you need is a good and unique educational app that can be built by a good app development team with skilled app developers. If you are a student try using such educational apps and enhance your career. And if you are planning to have such an app for your institute then try finding a good app development agency soon. This will help you create a good and simple to understand educational app.

Contributed by Zachary Hadlee

Since the non-event of Y2K, protecting computer systems and everything contained within them has become an increasingly urgent priority worldwide. These days, there are news reports almost daily on businesses such as Yahoo, Marriott and EBay falling victim to computer hackers and breaches of cybersecurity processes.

The earliest recorded use of the term ‘cybersecurity’ was back in 1989 – before then, the word cyber had a distinctly sci-fi vibe to it and was mainly confined to books and movies. In today’s world, cybersecurity is at the top of the list of priorities for businesses and Governments and one which, worldwide, we spend a staggering $114 billion on. Essentially, cybersecurity is all about protecting our internet-connected data, systems, software and hardware from cyber attacks – the unauthorised access or ‘hacking’ of systems in order to steal data. In 2016, over 200 million records – including those of Homeland Security and the FBI – were exposed through hacking.

Despite the very real dangers presented by cyberattack, many businesses are using little more than firewalls to prevent a breach – basically a simple network security system which acts as a traffic policeman on traffic coming in and out of a network; establishing barriers between the trusted internal network and external threats such as the internet. Although firewalls have evolved a great deal since their inception in the 1990s, many feel that they are no longer enough to ensure the security of our systems. As the need for greater defences against attack increases, many predict that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a huge role in defending our data.

A game changer for the security sector

Like the movie of the same name, Artificial Intelligence, or AI (also known as machine learning) simulates human intelligence in order to learn, reason and self-correct. AI has the ability to, in effect, learn – and learn from its mistakes in order to tackle problems in a methodical and rational manner – and with incredible speed.

In 2019, AI is used widely in a huge range of sectors – from hotel and leisure businesses to medical facilities, so, how does this translate to cybersecurity?

Until recently, it’s been down to us mere mortals to observe and analyze data patterns and behaviors in order to spot any anomalies which may indicate a breach. This has always been a cumbersome and time-consuming job and, often, by the time a breach is identified, it’s far too late to even attempt to track the hacker. Artificial Intelligence can be taught to do the same job and, not only will it do it so much faster than any human being could, it doesn’t need to stop for a cup of tea or a restroom break.

AI can read through structured data at super-fast speed in order to provide fast responses, meaning that we have a much greater chance of apprehending those who are threatening our systems. In addition to analyzing data within a system, AI can look at the way logins and passwords are entered in order to identify anomalies and quickly report them. This is a particularly important aspect as we remember the attack on Capital One which saw the data of 106 million customers being stolen from the financial giant.

As AI firmly claims its place in Cybersecurity, it can be trained to complete a large number of tasks, including:

• Network protection – detecting, reporting and preventing system intrusions
• Fraud – AI can quickly and effectively identify fraudulent use
• User authentication – AI can dramatically improve on login and password breaches
• Credit scoring – AI can transcend the existing, simple checks which are made for credit applications and apply a much deeper analysis of an applicant in order to fully understand the financial risk that they may represent

By applying AI to cybersecurity, businesses will save huge amounts of time, money and effort; much of which is currently wasted due to time consuming and ineffective practices.

Proactive prevention

As well as keeping our data safe and reporting attacks, artificial intelligence can even improve resistance to attacks by identifying patterns of previous attacks and the weaknesses which caused them – and then working toward eliminating those weaknesses. This is possibly the most essential use of AI in cybersecurity – prevention is always better than the cure!

Many organizations are already employing AI within their cybersecurity processes – and we’re sure to see many many more doing the same by the time we hit 2020. Although there are, of course, issues when using AI, both legal and ethical, responsible use of AI in cybersecurity is a vital move forward as hackers become smarter, faster and much more dangerous. It is said that the introduction of AI is simply a way of handing another tool to the hackers and cyber-thieves. Although this is a concern, we can no longer ignore the fact that our firewalls and human-driven cybersecurity is simply not enough to keep us safe.