Elizabeth V Calise

I found a few articles on this when I was looking for an article this week. A lot of the tips given are the same ones people should always use when online such as making sure the URL is spelled correctly and don’t click links from emails without verifying the sender. Hackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated though, making their websites and emails look more and more perfect. I don’t blame people for being wary of online shopping.

Elizabeth,
Very interesting article. I am surprised this high percentage of Americans don’t trust online shopping. I do believe the something, we share our sensitive information all time with different individuals and that can put us under the risk to be victims. These parties sell us items are individuals and they can be scams having the goal of attacking us.
Thank you for the article.

Hi Elizabeth:

Very interesting article and I was very surprise that China implement another laws to restrict the internet users.

Elizabeth,
In my opinion this law has many advantages and disadvantages, It will give the government a control of people activities over the internet which can target any people who are trying to do something wrong. At the mean time there is a big disadvantage since this law will touch the privacy of citizens who are now afraid to speak up freely about their ideas and thoughts.
Very interesting article and a big debate can be open regarding this topic.

what is freedom of speech? what is freedom of bear? Do you think someone doesnt need to be responsible for their words? There is no free launch. We all do know about it. If you were leader of China, what would you do in fact of 1 billion+ of population? There is no wrong or right (decision or law). Dont they want it’s the best for their citizen to get the best out of internet? We all make touch choices.

Hey Elizabeth,
This was a great article indeed. China has always surprised the world with its constant innovation and developments, being a closed economy. It put a ban on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. to protect its internal systems. All these companies failed to make a mark and in fact, local companies in China, example, Baidu, rose up to show strength. I think all countries should have a balanced regulation in cyber threat and I would in many ways not encourage the approach that China has taken. Banning the most important networks also shows lack of development in many ways.

Really interesting article. I think this is a real problem and we are going to be seeing it more and more moving forward. I think it comes form they simply do now have the money to properly keep up with cost of cyber security.

Elizabeth – Your response to Cyber-attacks on SMEs is quite interesting to read. I have to agree that SMEs definitely face a lot of challenges because of lack of resources, poor understanding of cyber security threats, and lack of capital to invest in such measures. One interesting aspect that I found in your response is the fact that the recovery is slow and expensive. This is an important point that you made because if recovery is costly, then it puts SMEs again into problems because they cannot afford enough to implement anti-malware solutions quickly. This not only affects their capital expenditure, but also the operations on the whole.

Elizabeth,
Sharing this type of articles is very important to educate people and small companies to think more about creating their own IT security departments that would be in charge of educating employees and protecting their IT infrastructures. I believe these types of articles give a strong sign to these small companies to think seriously about security by hiring more IT people and define a good budget to run these security departments. These companies don’t really work hard enough to secure there IT departments, especially if they are small.

For an extreme example, an usual startup company, what is priority for them? Growing up their business, they must put resource on their priority. Data presented above only make statistical sense. There are countless small business. What makes them think they will be attacked? For bad guys, how come do they find out those nameless company? Do you think someone outside of company or someone inside of company has higher possibility find out the weakness of company?

Elizabeth,

I do have a hard time too to find good cyber topics that were not covered in the past by other students. However, your topic is very interesting, not only for new Cyber Security students, for all Cyber Security students. There is high demand for people in this field which encourage us to work hard since there is potential grow in this career.

I do believe that this demand increased and will be big after Equifax attacks that no one expected in the past. Many companies are working on creating new IT security departments to protect their IT resources.

This field is new to me, My undergrad studies were in engineering and I am very excited to switch my career and be able to use my technical background to develop new IT security architecture as well as securing excising once.