Below I have ranked the motives for cybercrime from the ones that make the most sense to the ones that make the least amount of sense. For clarification, this is my opinion, and I do not condone cybercrime! (Just felt like I should say that, promise I’m not scheming…) 1. For Money/Monetary Gain- The birth…

Abraham Maslow’s idea of the ‘hierarchy of needs is applicable not only to the physical world but to the digital world as well. The pyramid goes as follows [from bottom to top]; Physiological needs, Safety needs, Belongingness and love needs, Esteem needs, and finally, self-actualization. This post will break down each segment of the pyramid…

Hello World, Whilst starting my trek through the Old Dominion Cyber Security courses, an overarching idea was proposed, that being “cybersecurity is an interdisciplinary field”. The fields that cybersecurity pulls from are numerous and diverse, gathering from specialties like computer science and programming, to seemingly stranger sectors like manufacturing and law. One area in particular…

Whilst studying for the CompTIA Security+ exam over the summer, it dawned on me that cybersecurity as a whole is a broad field. The discipline covers a multitude of subjects from law, networking, administration, and ethical hacking. The NICE framework, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, covers a wide variety of cybersecurity…