This weeks discussion:

1. How do engineers make cyber networks safer?

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

Cybersecurity engineers are extremely important and play a critical role in protecting cyberspace for everyone. Some things they focus on depends on where they are working, as in environments, and fields. Some engineers can make the networks safe in the industrial fields, by maintaining and updating machine intelligence, and utilizing their skills to achieve high performance and high speeds and flexibility. Other fields Cyber engineers have an active role in is agriculture, transportation, and wastewater facilities. Sometimes they will go underground to map out the pipeline to ensure stable connections, they also utilize sensors to help find leaks and understand usage better. In regards to transportation, the railroads they build, planes and commercial trucking are all ways they impact and ensure our safety. When building and creating these things they have to ensure they all have safety features and technology to alert when things are going wrong, practice using encryption, and constantly be monitoring to fix and adapt to near risks and vulnerabilities that occur.

Criminal justice plays a key role in cybercrime because it helps us better understand how to prevent cyber crime. The criminal justice aspect of cybersecurity always asks why a cybercriminal may commit a hack, as well as understanding how victims of cybercrime feel, expands the digital forensics field, create and improve new guardianship strategies. Guardianship strategies are ways that people in the criminal justice field utilize their skills to create new guidelines for situational crime prevention. Some of these guardianship strategies would include removing temptations, rule setting , and target hardening. This overlap between cybercrime and criminal justice relates to ethics and philosophy another discipline we discussed which is based off of human responses and a deeper meaning to why people hack and why it is wrong.