{"id":138,"date":"2026-02-13T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyberimpact1\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:25:13","slug":"cyse-368","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/cyse-368\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Professional Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Introduction<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u25cf Cybersecurity analyst plans, implements, upgrades and monitors security measures to<br \/>\nprotect computer networks and information<br \/>\n\u25cf Without being able to upgrade and continue to develop information safeguarding against<br \/>\nthreats, everything would be at risk of being hacked and taken over by cybersecurity<br \/>\nhackers.<br \/>\n\u25cf This paper will dive into cybersecurity analyst\/engineers and talk about the social science<br \/>\nresearch and their relations together.<br \/>\n<strong>Social science principles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Relation to Career:<\/strong> Cybersecurity as we know it, is just humans who create things and or<br \/>\ndo things\/actions so everything is correlated. You can definitely use psychology and<br \/>\nsociology to determine how things are related or the relativity between them. So the actions<br \/>\nmay be committed because of desires and or motivations like money, or revenge, or<br \/>\nwanting a sense of longing for something. The motivations and or reasons could be endless<br \/>\nbut often are able to be categorized and labeled. Usually in different schools of psychology<br \/>\nwhich makes up the sociologies, but usually fall in either social and or cultural, cognitive,<br \/>\nbehaviorism, psychodynamic, functionalism, or structuralism which are all ways to identify<br \/>\nstructures of experiences.<br \/>\n\u25cf The principles are integrated with some of the previous that I just named to try to mitigate<br \/>\nrisk by analyzing human and cultural behaviors. Understanding the how and reasoning is<br \/>\none of the biggest parts as well as stopping them, but understanding them can help lead to<br \/>\nstopping them and lead to everything and the protection of things to be safer and more<br \/>\nsecure.<br \/>\n\u25cf Professionals may spread the awareness of concept and security of social science by<br \/>\nusing social influence and media to spread the awareness, may be using simulated<br \/>\nwalkthroughs of how information or data can be taken or stolen, ads in television and or<br \/>\nother media or making insightful videos to spread awareness. For example, making<br \/>\nappearances in shows like doctor phil, and or making movies to show how easy it is to<br \/>\nfall victim to these things.<br \/>\n<strong>Application of Key Concepts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Relation to Career:<\/strong> Identify key concepts from the class<br \/>\n\u25cf While having a career as a cybersecurity analyst\/engineer, you should have certain skills<br \/>\nor principles that will help you and you will use throughout your career. These include<br \/>\nstudying information in a value free manner, obtaining the knowledge so that you can use<br \/>\nit to keep people\/things this could be known as objectivity. Keeping explanation levels<br \/>\nsimple when giving reports and or explaining how to do your job maybe in discussions<br \/>\nwith other colleagues or whenever the time may call parsimony. Adhering to ethical<br \/>\nstandards and protecting the rights of whatever data and or information you may come<br \/>\nacross, so doing your job the right way and legally ensuring the security and protection<br \/>\ncorrectly this is known as ethical neutrality. Also, a way to show these principles in your<br \/>\nwork is in reports or even just spreading the information and things to look for and what<br \/>\nto do or not to do as someone in that field. Being that you are working in that career as a<br \/>\nprofessional, you should have ways in which you can give advice to others as well to help<br \/>\nthem secure their information and other things of those natures.<br \/>\n<strong>Marginalization<\/strong><br \/>\n\u25cf Relation to Career : Explore how cybersecurity affects marginalized groups, noting<br \/>\nissues such as unequal access to technology, increased targeting in breaches, or<br \/>\nsurveillance concerns.<br \/>\n\u25cf Discuss the profession&#8217;s efforts to address these challenges, such as initiatives to diversify<br \/>\nthe field or policies aimed at equitable digital protection.<br \/>\nCareer Connection to Society<br \/>\n\u25cf Relation to Career : Without protection from social cybersecurity threats, financial<br \/>\nsystems, healthcare systems, global internet systems, even oil and disruptions would be<br \/>\nmore frequent and damaging. There would be no guaranteed protection against hackers<br \/>\nthat would like to do harm and cause mischief for their own personal gain or destruction<br \/>\nof others. Things like gas prices, healthcare prices, banking information, every structure<br \/>\nas we know it, information from social media, taking the privacy of millions and billions<br \/>\nof people away to sell for information could all be done, however since there are<br \/>\nprotections from the professionals and cybersecurity analysts and engineers that create<br \/>\nways for these protections to be possible, the risks are still there but lowered and boost<br \/>\nsecurity.<br \/>\n\u25cf Public policies including executive orders, and sector-specific regulations are all in place<br \/>\nto try and protect data and information of the general public. For example, some<br \/>\ninformation may be censored or not accessible if it could pose a threat and or disrupt<br \/>\nsociety. Increasing the multi-factor authentication steps and identity management,<br \/>\ncreating tension between maintaining security, protecting individual privacy and ensuring<br \/>\ndigital equity across the world.<br \/>\n<strong>Scholarly Journal Articles<\/strong><br \/>\nProvide at least three scholarly sources that explore different aspects of the cybersecurity<br \/>\nprofession.<br \/>\n\u25cf<strong> Source 1:<\/strong><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.odu.edu\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167404826<br \/>\n000015<br \/>\n\u25cf The article above provides great background information about the cybersecurity<br \/>\nanalyst job and role, and importance, as long as different experiences neede for<br \/>\nthe job and protocols that would definitely be helpful for anyone especially those<br \/>\nlooking for a career in this area.<br \/>\n\u25cf <strong>Source 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-9292\/13\/23\/4718<\/p>\n<p>The second Journal<br \/>\narticle talks about how artificial intelligence and the aid of helping in the role of<br \/>\ncybersecurity analysts and two studies concerning the identification of<br \/>\nvulnerabilities in android applications, and analysts of security logs. As well as<br \/>\nshowing how LLM chatbots help security analysts in their work with the<br \/>\nlimitations and security concerns labeled.<br \/>\n<strong>\u25cf Source 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychology\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2020.0104<br \/>\n9\/full<\/p>\n<p>The third and last article talks about errors for Intrusion Detection Systems<br \/>\nand how human errors take place in the field, and how different scenarios and<br \/>\ntheir implications have effects. The article also provides simulations and<br \/>\nevidences with their datasets and methods to talk about different computational<br \/>\nagent strategies in attacking and the defense of cybersecurity threats. With<br \/>\ndifferent agents and predictions for attackers, it shows the relationship between<br \/>\ntheories of people and how their interactions in the cyber realm and how different<br \/>\nmodels of human cognition can automatically be turned into either defender or<br \/>\nhacker preferences with different models and simulations. As well as<br \/>\nnetwork\/software vulnerabilities and decision making with human learning to<br \/>\nimprove the overall long-term network safety and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction \u25cf Cybersecurity analyst plans, implements, upgrades and monitors security measures to protect computer networks and information \u25cf Without being able to upgrade and continue to develop information safeguarding against threats, everything would be at risk of being hacked and taken over by cybersecurity hackers. \u25cf This paper will dive into cybersecurity analyst\/engineers and talk&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/cyse-368\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32129,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/zephhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}