David Eves

As we (society) continue to grow in our dependence on technology and connectivity, end users must evolve in our ability to safeguard ourselves from cyber criminal attacks. I am not sure the common users are educating themselves to the vulnerabilities that exist. It seems creating personal resiliency and backup plans would lessen the impact of ransomware attacks. Although I consider myself to be a moderately educated on the perils of cyber attacks, however I cannot claim that I feel safe from possible attacks. Maybe I am ‘old school’ but I still like to maintain my own backups in addition to my automated cloud backups.

Very good article. Unfortunately, I suspect as stated in the article, the common user will experience more and more grief from breaches on their personal data.

Good Post, David. Regarding this statement “The challenge with big data is not the data. There is plenty of data. The challenge with big data is developing a set of meaningful use cases that address key business challenges.” I believe that one of the biggest challenges with big data is the quality of that data. Dirty data costs companies in the United States $600 billion every year. Common causes of dirty data that must be addressed include user input errors, duplicate data, and incorrect data linking. In addition to being meticulous at maintaining and cleaning data, using IT techniques and big data algorithms can be used to help clean data.

It seems like these days, especially universities, have no controls whatsoever within their Athletic Departments. Whether it is spending, or making sure the athletes are still students, attend their own classes, (it has been reported that universities look the other way to students taking classes for athletes) there is a lack of controls across the board. I believe, and I know this is not related to the class as well, but controls can be augmented not just for data and businesses, but also disciplinary and operational purposes for people.

Great post David!

In fact there is a lack of awareness. People don’t know how crucial it is to protect their information and/or the information of a company. Also, most of them think it will never happen to them. Frankly, I think that we did not yet understand the downsides of technology.

Great post!

I also read an article that contradicts yours a little. The article I read conducted a survey and found out that a large percentage of companies are fully aware of cyber threats and its consequences but more than half of them are not prepared or invested enough is cyber security.

Thanks for shaving your takeaway from anthem breach. This article reminds me that 2 years ago, my friend got a fake email from PayPal saying that “sign up for this and you will get 5$ credit in your PayPal account. He did that and he told me to do so but I refused. He ended up didn’t get the five dollars and he contacted PayPal customer service. Paypal said it never had a promotion like this. I think that his account information has been stolen but so far nothing happened to him yet.

When we receive some article/promotion in email, we need to make sure the email address is the correct and verified address. Most of the times, it contained a link that directs us to a virus-infected website. Fake email sent from a fake email is easy to identified just by paying more attention to the email address.