Journal 8 – Media Depiction of Hackers

After watching the video titled “Hacker Rates 12 Hacking Scenes In Movies And TV” it helped me gain a general knowledge of how media depicts cybersecurity. My 1^st point is that Media tends to make the act of hacking seem easy. It doesn’t correctly depict the sophistication and challenges that hackers may face when trying to hack into a guarded network. They also depict this as very fast-paced, and that hacking a network can take only seconds to do immense damage. Typically, a sophisticated attack that creates a large disruption will take time and patience. At one point in the video, there was a very realistic phishing attack. They captured this well as you watched the hacker create an attack that was personalized to its targeted user. I think the media does help emphasize the need for cybersecurity measures in a network, but it also does not correctly depict the amount of effort it takes to successfully hack an individual or organization.