Computers have changed the game of technology to a whole different level. Computers have made the world safer by helping to increase international relations, providing medical assistance and aiding in the finding of criminals. These electronic devices have made it so easier for countries to communicate with each other. Their officials can send emails, calls and messages that travel at a quick pace of just a couple seconds. This is beneficial to society as relations between countries can impact the world. Computers provide medical assistance by storing information of their patients. Without stored information about their patients they can not perform the necessary procedures to save a patient’s life. One of the main ways to find a criminal is through the storage of electronic records and data. Computers have the ability to show a criminal’s location and electronic payments, therefore making it easier for the police to find criminals.

Even though computers have made the world a better place, it has also made the world unsafe at times. Cyber crime is at an all time high due to computers having the ability to get through secured networks and capture personal information. Many hackers have successfully gone through a secured network and obtain company’s information with a computer. This is how many innocent people have gotten their money stolen, through hackers utilizing computers capabilities.

Engineers make cyber networks safer by using the engineering approach to protect privacy of companies and its consumers. This system contributes to optimizing the benefits of technological advancements while bringing down the negative effects of advanced technology. In the engineering approach there is a privacy risk model, in the model the troublesome action plays the same role in causing cyber crime. This model is beneficial because businesses can use the privacy risk model to show which systems are vulnerable to malicious actions and the like hood of a troublesome action.

Sources: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2017/NIST.IR.8062.pdf