1. How do engineers make cyber networks safer?

A cyber network is a system of individual devices connected via a stream of data. These streams of data can be wired or wireless, but either way, they present a significant vulnerability without the proper safeguards in place. That is where cyber engineers come in to make things safer. There are several things they do to ensure that the data transferring between devices maintains its privacy and integrity.

The first thing engineers will typically do is build in safeguards into the network they are designing. These safeguards can be encryptions to hide the true nature of data that is being transferred, firewalls to filter data packets going into and out of the network, and dividing the network into separate pieces to ensure that if one portion encounters a breach, the network overall is still safe.

2. What is the overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime? How does this overlap relate to the other disciplines discussed in this course?

The overlap between criminal justice and cybercrime is a fairly wide grouping. Many cybercrimes are just traditional crimes being committed using technology such as Fraud, Embezzlement, and Bullying. However, there are new types of crimes including DDOS, Hacking, Piracy, Unauthorized Access, Cyber Terrorism, Internet Sex Crimes, and more.

The overlap between traditional and cyber crimes is particularly prolific with white-collar crimes and terrorism. White collar organizations have probably benefited most robustly from the implementation of technology. This also means that the white collar criminals have also evolved along with the technological implementations. Terrorism has also had to drastically change around the implementation of technological surveillance, alarms, security, and infrastructure implementation. As security has started implementing computing, cameras, sensors, etc., terrorists have needed to adapt around the increasing cyber portions of infrastructure.

Both of these cases have required an adjustment in criminal justice as well, to keep abreast of the changes in these two respective fields.