Weekly Question: 8

Threat modeling is a way IT professionals can possibly identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities and judge the severity of them. Threat modeling can also identify ways to best deal with the identified issue. One piece of legislation directed at data privacy is the California Consumer Privacy Act. A few pieces of legislation designed to regulate cybersecurity are the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Gram-Leach-Bliley Act, and the Federal Information Security Management Act. Ransomware is a type of software that is used to hold the data of victims hostage and force the organization to pay to have their data released. Hospitals are often victims of ransomware attacks due to the fact that their data is so personal and time sensitive that often times they have no choice but to pay the ransom. One of the best ways to protect yourself online is using two-factor authentication for your passwords to make it much more difficult for your accounts to be attacked. One of the three types of AI is Narrow, which is the AI we have available today that is not smarter than a human. Another type of AI is General AI which we do not possess that is equal to human intelligence. The final type of AI is Superintelligence, which is smarter than that of human beings.  Alan Turning is the father of computers ever since he built one to break the enigma code during WWII. The Turing test is a test used to determine whether or not you are talking to a computer or a person.