The speaker’s journey into digital forensics struck me as a typical path that many stumble upon. Initially unfamiliar with the profession, he was driven by curiosity to delve into something new. His enthusiasm for the field was clear, and after watching his presentation, I feel compelled to pursue a career in digital forensics myself. His…

I have chosen many career paths in my life to set me up in my future, since I’ve joined the military, I have been interested in intelligence/ cybersecurity. A career choice that I  would like to pursue in the future is a Digital Forensics Analyst. Digital forensics analysts are tasked with investigating cybercrimes, including hacks, data breaches,…

There are a multitude of illegal activities that individuals engage in daily, often without realizing the severity of their actions. Among the top five serious offenses I’ve identified are: sharing passwords, addresses, and photos of others, engaging in bullying and trolling behavior online, assuming false identities on the internet, conducting illegal searches, and utilizing unofficial…

In the letter about the data breach on www.glasswasherparts.com, different social theories can help us understand what happened. Marxian theory says there’s a power imbalance between the company and its customers. The breach shows the company didn’t protect customer data well, taking advantage of people’s trust for its own gain. Classical theory says markets should…

In summary, the success of bug bounty policies can be measured by their ability to reveal vulnerabilities, enhance system security, and foster collaboration between organizations and security researchers. While they have shown promise in bolstering cybersecurity defenses, their effectiveness lies on factors such as program clarity, reward adequacy, and organizational responsiveness. In my view, I…

The article I chose to review was from The Journal of Cybersecurity intelligence and Cybercrime called Cyberbullying during COVID-19 Pandemic: Relation to Perceived Social Isolation among college and university students, by Nadya S. Neuhaeusler, M.S, University of Michigan-Dearborn. This article researched how the increase in technology use during the COVID-19 global pandemic affected the lives…

In a cybersecurity analyst job, I observed several social themes that came up that show how vital human interactions are in cybersecurity. One big theme is teamwork and communication. Most cybersecurity analysts work together in groups, so being able to talk and work well with others is key to spotting and dealing with cyber threats…

In the article “Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement” by Lt. Col. David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, PhD, talks about how cybersecurity is not only the practice of safeguarding computers but is also connected to how people interact socially. The authors of this article state that just focusing only on the technical side…

I scored a 4/9, The choices that were given were very realistic because a lot of people have trouble getting off their phone. Different patterns may be found around the world because different countries view of social media is very different from America most people don’t even use social media in other countries, or they…

The media influences our understanding about cybersecurity in many ways such as depicted in the videos the cyber hackers were very fast and efficient at hacking into a system. In real life hacking takes time and it takes some form of knowledge of the user, for instance there was a scene in the video that…