Cybersecurity is the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, program and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access.
Current threats of the US that are at risk include banking and financial institutions, telecommunications networks, and energy facilities. Although most of these are owned by the private sector, they are extremely crucial to the welfare of the US and are also heavily dependent on computer networks. These networks and information systems are what need protection from potential attackers and intruders. The federal government has taken various steps to protect our country such as: implementing a strategy to address cyber risks to federal building and access to control systems, improving federal efforts to implement cybersecurity in the maritime port environment and enhancing cybersecurity for air traffic control systems. Some other challenges that the federal government still needs to address include; developing and implementing procedures to help protect national security-related agencies’ systems from information technology supply chain risk, enhancing the oversight of contractors providing IT services, improving security incident response …show more content…
discusses the importance of cybersecurity in relation to finances of the US. The statement claims that cyber criminals will target the larger entities that have the potential to significantly threaten the finances and reputations of the US most significant businesses and institutions. The most common way for cyber criminals to threaten the US financially is through exploit financial and market systems, counterfeiting of stored value cards, fraudulent monetary transfers, and corporate account takeovers. As discussed in the previous article, the cyber criminals use fake files, attachments, folders, documents, etc. to access the accounts of people all across the
Current threats of the US that are at risk include banking and financial institutions, telecommunications networks, and energy facilities. Although most of these are owned by the private sector, they are extremely crucial to the welfare of the US and are also heavily dependent on computer networks. These networks and information systems are what need protection from potential attackers and intruders. The federal government has taken various steps to protect our country such as: implementing a strategy to address cyber risks to federal building and access to control systems, improving federal efforts to implement cybersecurity in the maritime port environment and enhancing cybersecurity for air traffic control systems. Some other challenges that the federal government still needs to address include; developing and implementing procedures to help protect national security-related agencies’ systems from information technology supply chain risk, enhancing the oversight of contractors providing IT services, improving security incident response …show more content…
discusses the importance of cybersecurity in relation to finances of the US. The statement claims that cyber criminals will target the larger entities that have the potential to significantly threaten the finances and reputations of the US most significant businesses and institutions. The most common way for cyber criminals to threaten the US financially is through exploit financial and market systems, counterfeiting of stored value cards, fraudulent monetary transfers, and corporate account takeovers. As discussed in the previous article, the cyber criminals use fake files, attachments, folders, documents, etc. to access the accounts of people all across the