Information processing

Financial literacy is the ability to use knowledge and skills to make effective and informed money management decisions. In order for one to become financially literate is a long process that usually starts when your mom and dad give you your first piggy bank to save up for that Baby Alive you have been begging for all year. Then one day it turns into buying a new car or having good credit. Learning to be financially literate is something that many people in my generation lack but is an…

The Target hack of 2013 resulted in the loss of 40 million people’s credit card numbers, and the loss of 70 million people’s email address, phone numbers, and more. The majority of retail stores focus on selling their products to consumers. The security for retails stores can receive very little attention. Target was working to increase their IT security by hiring Fireeye to install a 1.6 million dollar security system. The system would send Fireeye notices of any security breaches. Fireeye…

claims the book is based on over one-thousand interviews conducted with government employees and other influential people in the field. Harris discloses how crucial it is for people who work for the government to refrain from sharing classified information, but explains that the line between classified and public knowledge becomes blurred. For this reason, Harris agreed to not disclose the identities of many of his sources. However, he promises that when he needs to cite anonymous sources, he…

Information security is defined as protection of confidentiality, integrity as well as information access (Chen, Ramamurthy & Wen, 2012)). There is evidence which suggests that, regardless of technical controls numbers in place, institutions of higher learning such as Central Michigan University will still have to deal with security breaches. Information security does not only refer to technical problems, but is also known as ‘people’ problem. This is because most breaches occur when the people…

cybersecurity against cyberattacks. The internet holds thorough information about our lives, but the fact it’s been in existence for only 20 years makes it easy access for problems like crashing and hacking. It also mentioned how people are able to mask their being and also give a false testify because their identity remains unknown. They know in due time people will transition to smartphones which allows us to store personal information on these portable devices. It also mentioned the fight for…

Introduction Cybersecurity should have always been important to anyone using technological devices. Now it is not only important but rather essential to maintain quality performance of technology. The cyber world will never be completely free of cyber attacks, cyber espionage or cyber threats same as how the physical world will never be completely free of crime. However we must seek to limit the amount of cyber security violations as well as the severity of any violations. This can only be done…

Calling someone was something done at home, or at a phone booth. Today, all of those activities can be done in the palm of your hand in a matter of minutes. With all of that information in one place, the cell phone has become one of the most targeted devices for cyber-attacks according to the FCC (FCC Cybersecurity). With information changing and being exchanged so fast, it comes down to Cyber Security experts to keep it safe. From the 90’s to now, Cyber Security has evolved with the technology…

Ronin Chang is a security professional with many years of experience of in the security related industry. Security surrounding networking, systems, architects, physical, and so forth. There is no mystery here. Ronin Chang has been dealing with information security prior to the CISSP even being a certification (which is 1994 for those who don’t know). Ronin Chang was around when the great Hal Tipton was at…

the dangers. Efforts to establish safety incorporated with application and a sound application security routine minimize the probability that unapproved code will have the capacity to control applications to get to, take, change, or erase touchy information. Moves made to guarantee application security…

The article “South L.A. student finds a different world at Cal” written by Kurt Streeter was a true story of Kashawn Campbell, who was struggling in his first English writing class at the University of California, Berkeley (“UC Berkeley”), one of the best public universities in the US. Campbell was raised in one of the roughest neighborhoods in South Los Angeles, Jefferson, where composed of Latinos and blacks exclusively. Campbell was determined at his early age to make a change of his life…