Purpose of cybersecurity is to protect and safeguard the network entities, confidential and sensitive documents from getting accessed by unauthorized professionals or cybercriminals who steal these data for personal or economic gains.
Cybersecurity is the umbrella term whose subset is Network security, which focuses on securing particular networks from unauthorized people.
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