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Post-pandemic digital era looks very promising, even as COVID-19 left a huge Cybersecurity impact on the digital behaviour [25] of digital consumers and internet users not only in the directly affected localities but across the globe. While counting the losses, a significant proportion of the lessons should be focused on preparedness on the side of global cyber response to such a major event. Secure management and user control of digital identities, for example, should become an indispensable global priority.

With the fresh lessons from the pandemic, and the proposals offered in this book, the equitable use of digital technology would be transformed for good, rather than wait for the next pandemic. A sanitized Cybersecurity outlook awaits in the horizon with plenty of benefits for internet users, online commerce operators, security vendors, governments, cyberspace consumers, Cybersecurity scholars, and consequential beneficiaries.

We must all play our roles as individuals, organizations, nations, and societies to be conscious of the risks we take on the internet, and to recognize and react promptly to the threats that we face on the cyberspace. Doing this will guarantee that Cybersecurity propagates a safer cyberspace for leisure, family, work, and business in the post COVID-19 digital era, an era that will witness a new version of Cybersecurity fully optimized to intuitively neutralize the sophistication of contemporary cyberattacks.

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