Cyber Security- An Emerging Field Of Study

Ever since the start of the internet, cyber crime continues to be an issue

. What is cyber crime? Have you ever gotten a virus, or even gotten hacked? These are very common cyber crimes. Cyber criminals hack into networks, create viruses, and can even steal your financial information. Though we are all aware that this is a possibility when housing our information on computers, we often think that it will never happen to us.

Though cyber crime could potentially be financially devastating to the typical person, it can be done to cause catastrophic repercussions by political extremists that can misuse the Internet for acts of cyber terrorism. What exactly is Cyber Terrorism? It is when an individual or persons use the anonymity and global reach of the web for their own personal gain, like, terrorist attacks on U.S. information infrastructure in attempts to seal money, identities and classified data. They could also use the internet as a tool to find like-minded extremists to help them try to hack their way into corporate and/or government networks.

Michael Alcorn, Branch Chief in the State Departments Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistance had this to say about cyber terrorism, The problem were all facing is a global borderless problem, where attacks can occur anywhere in the world and originate from anywhere else in the world.

Though he said this in 2005, it still rings true today. Attacks could happen at any time, in any location, against any person or institution. The only real way to combat this is to have individuals which have cyber security education that are specialized in fighting against cyber terrorism and cyber criminals. These individuals are known as cyber security professionals.

What does a cyber security professional do? They coordinate a corporations information security preparedness, educate users on computer security, respond to sophisticated cyber attacks, gather data and evidence to be used when prosecuting cybercrimes such as credit card fraud, auction fraud, intellectual property theft, pedophilia, terrorism, hacking and they monitor the network for any security breaches. Normally they're employed by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. From time to time cyber security professionals might be called on to engage in computer crime investigations this is called Cyber Forensics. This is an emerging field, and because of technology advances, this filed will ways be changing along with technology. Cyber security professionals must keep up to date with changes and technology and be lifelong learners within their field.

by: Sarah D. Lorenz

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