Journal Entry 2

There are many majors at ODU that can relate to cybersecurity; four of them could be in mental health services, criminal justice, accounting, and management information systems. With mental health services, there involves a lot of sensitive information on patients being entered into computer records. It is important that there are protective measures that are set in place to prevent any information to be stolen. Attackers could do anything with stolen health records. If patients wanted to keep their conditions secret from others, attackers would be able to release those types of information. When it comes to the medical field, a social security number is always somewhere in those records as it is something that is frequently asked for. With criminal justice, evidence or data collection in digital forensics is where cybersecurity comes into play. While collecting evidence, it is important that all evidence is not tampered with and that there are safety measures set in place to prevent tampering. This could be through encryption or physical security of systems set in place for protection. With accounting, a lot of financial information is recorded and can be stored in computer systems. It is important to protect the systems or software that store financial information because if the financial information were to be stolen, that would mean that attackers would have access to credit cards for example and use this information to make purchases. For management information systems, a variety of different types of information are being stored depending on what business it is. There are some attackers out there who work for another company and are looking for ways to exploit information about the products and services along with customer data of another company to gain an advantage. There are times when these attackers using social engineering to collect information. This could involve tricking employees into giving out sensitive or classified information.