Dezi Spruill 11/6/2025 CYSE 200T Teresa Duvall BLUF: This paper explains the importance of SCADA systems, the vulnerabilities associated with infrastructure systems, and how SCADA applications mitigate these risks.  Introduction What is SCADA? SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, which is used to control major infrastructure, facility-based, or industrial processes by directly interfacing…

Dezi SpruillCYSE 200T10/22/25Professor Duvall BLUF: On Wednesday, October 22, we had a guest speaker, Ms. Doris Locking, visit the class to discuss IT, her career field, and other valuable qualities she has experienced, allowing students to gain insight into their future career paths. Ms. Locking came in and spoke with our class and discussed a…

The CIA triad is the backbone of cybersecurity that provides the main framework for protecting confidential data. CIA stands for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. At the same time, authentication and authorization are the access control processes that maintain the hardware and technical infrastructure, as well as the systems that hold and display important information (Chai…