Do ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities to the school, each other, or both?
Explain the nature of the vulnerabilities ITACS students represent in the context(s) you chose?
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Chenhao Zhang says
1、In my opinion, ITACS students may represent information security vulnerabilities in the school, each other, or both. ITACS students may be potential targets for cyberattacks, meaning information security vulnerabilities when these students say they are not aware of the risks associated with their behavior. But this is not limited to ITACS students, and everyone has the possibility of being threatened online, especially if they do not take the necessary precautions in the face of cyber attacks.
2、Firstly, ITACS students may inadvertently introduce malware or viruses into the school network, and if they download files from untrusted sources or click on suspicious links, they will crisis the school network.
Secondly, there may be cybercriminals using phishing electronics to trick students, induce them to click on links to malicious websites, or enter students’ login credentials.
Finally, ITACS students may inadvertently download malware or share copyrighted materials, which also leads to legal disputes.
Yujie Cao says
I think it goes both ways for ITACS students and Temple University.
On the one hand, students may receive dangerous emails or links that can infect their devices with viruses if they click on them, and criminals may hack into Temple University’s systems and steal resources through our devices. There are too many email intrusions and phishing sites nowadays. On the other hand, Temple University is also a target for attackers, it holds sensitive data of students, which will cause serious consequences if it is invaded by virus.
Therefore, students and the university must pay attention to cyber security, be vigilant and strengthen the protection, and not give opportunities to the wrongdoers.
Yawen Du says
I think ITACS students represent an information security vulnerability for both. The proportion of students among Internet users is getting higher and higher, but students’ outlook on life and values are not yet mature, so they cannot identify network information security well and often face many information security problems without their knowledge.
In my opinion, there are three main categories of information security issues faced: physical security threats, operating system security threats, and network security threats. Of course, there are many potential vulnerabilities and threats affecting information security, which require students to strengthen their awareness of vigilance and prevention, and schools to strengthen network monitoring and intrusion detection to maximize the protection of information security.
Chun Liu says
I think ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities to the school, A vulnerability is a hole or a weakness in the application, which can be a design flaw or an implementation bug, that allows an attacker to cause harm to the stakeholders of an application. Stakeholders include the application owner, application users, and other entities that rely on the application. ITACS students may download malware via email attachments, which may expose many customers using the system to a higher risk of a data breach or supply chain attack.
Hao Zhang says
I think ITACS students both represent information security vulnerabilities to the school,
Security vulnerabilities are unprotected entry points inadvertently left behind by restricted computers, components, applications, or other online resources. A variety of attack media are conducive to hacker attacks: through the ITACS students’ web pages, mail can cross the firewall protection, IDS is not easy to check,school need to analyze various formats and protocol to check the vulnerability attack. Even if the school website server itself is not a problem, but the website outside the chain of other websites are hacked, will also cause bad effects on the school.Both schools and students should enhance their network security awareness to prevent their own information security leakage.
Shuting Zhang says
ITACS students can represent information security vulnerabilities both to the school and to each other.
School:
1. If an ITACS student misuses their privileges or gains unauthorized access to sensitive systems or data, they can compromise the security of the school’s network. This could lead to data breaches, unauthorized disclosure of information, or even sabotage.
2. ITACS students may unintentionally introduce vulnerabilities through their actions or lack of awareness. For example, if a student fails to follow proper security protocols, such as using weak passwords, not updating software, or falling for phishing scams, it can expose the school’s systems and networks to potential threats.
3. Although not common, there is a possibility that an ITACS student could intentionally exploit their knowledge and access privileges to harm the school’s information security. This could involve stealing sensitive information, modifying grades, or disrupting school operations.
Each other:
1. If ITACS students collaborate on coding projects or share code snippets, there is a risk that insecure coding practices or vulnerabilities could be unintentionally shared. This could lead to the introduction of vulnerabilities in software or applications developed by the students.
2. ITACS students often use various collaboration tools and platforms to work together on projects. If these tools are not properly secured or configured, they can become potential entry points for attackers to gain unauthorized access to sensitive project files or communications.
3. ITACS students, like anyone else, can be susceptible to social engineering attacks. If an ITACS student is tricked or manipulated into disclosing sensitive information or sharing their credentials, it can compromise their own security and potentially expose their peers to risks.
Yuming He says
Both ITACS students and schools represent information security vulnerabilities.
Students can consider how computer equipment theft can expose organizations to the risk of unintentional disclosure of different types of information, such as private, confidential, internal, or public. They can also derive useful formulas for effectively responding to information security incidents.
The nature of the vulnerability represented by ITACS students: unintentional disclosure of information (accidental).
Nana Li says
I think ITACS students may represent information security vulnerabilities to the school, each other, or both. Vulnerability is a flaw in the specific implementation of hardware, software, protocols, or system security policies that can allow attackers to access or destroy the system without authorization.
As a user of the campus network, ITACS students access the school network server through the network. Once a student’s account is invaded by viruses or other malicious programs, it will have an impact on the information security of the information network that the user accesses.
Guanhua Xiao says
I think the ITACS students represent an information security breach for the school, for each other, or for both. As the Internet becomes more and more convenient, there will be a lot of advertising and spam, and will be downloaded without attention. Because this happens so often in our daily life, students may not even know what they downloaded afterwards. So I think we should strengthen the management of firewall and enhance the vigilance from the root of students.
Haoran Wang says
The ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities both to the school and each other.The students may sharing their information to other person outside of school and not aware the information security issues.Also,the vulnerabilities arise from phishing attack or hacker hack the students account and students information,it will create damage to both school and others.
Shuyi Dong says
Students have the potential to pose an information security vulnerability to both the school and each other. This is because students may engage in risky online behavior, such as sharing passwords or clicking on suspicious links, which could compromise the security of the school’s network or other students’ personal information. In addition, students may not be aware of proper security protocols and may inadvertently expose sensitive information or become victims of phishing scams. Therefore, it is important for schools to educate students on proper security practices and take steps to protect their networks and data.
Hongli Ma says
Yes, I think ITACS students are likely to be attacked by social engineering, which brings danger to school information security.
People are often the weakest link in social engineering attacks. Hackers use psychological and social skills to deceive and manipulate people to obtain unauthorized information or perform malicious acts. This is especially challenging for ITACS students as they may have technical knowledge but still be vulnerable to social engineering attacks.
Here are some potential impacts of social engineering attacks on ITACS students:
1、Deception and inducement: Hackers may use deception to impersonate a trusted entity, such as by forging emails, social media accounts or phone numbers, in order to induce ITACS students to disclose sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, bank accounts, etc. This could include clicking malicious links, downloading malware, or sharing sensitive information.
2、Information Leakage: By building trusting relationships with ITACS students, hackers can gain access to sensitive information or systems. This can lead to data leakage, unauthorized access or system intrusion.
3、Social Engineering Attack Chain: Hackers could target one individual among the ITACS students and then use their trust relationships and connections to further attack others. This attack chain can spread to the entire student population, causing widespread impact.
Yuanjun Xie says
I think ITACS student represents an information security breach caused by a student accessing the school system. With the high frequency of using the Internet and the convenience of information processing, we will read and browse a lot of invalid documents, advertisements and spam. Default reading and downloading often happen, and students are not aware of it or can’t prevent it. I think in addition to strengthening the awareness of information security and protection training, we should also strengthen the management of the firewall.
Zhang Yunpeng says
I would say it goes both ways for ITACS students and Temple University. If for instance a student were to be involved in a phishing attack when they open their Temple email account, this would certainly cause some kind of severe damage to both sides. As an educational institution, Temple has access to students contact information, academic records, etc. It would also be disastrous if a hacker had access to obtain countless student records, or even information from faculty and staff. That is why it is imperative that safety precautions are in place to help protect highly sensitive information from both parties.
Xinyi Peng says
ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities as they may introduce malicious viruses or software into the campus, exposing the campus system to hacker attacks. Schools should establish a network security system, and operation and maintenance personnel should regularly check the security of the network system.
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Haixu Yao says
I think ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities in both.
Firstly, most students majoring in non information security have poor security awareness, and their social worker resistance against hackers is weak. They may receive attractive phishing emails and click on threatening email links, which can serve as a springboard for criminals to further attack the school system; Secondly, students may not have sufficient cybersecurity measures to cope with potential cyber attacks, and may not even be able to detect that they have been attacked; Thirdly, students’ immature concepts of judging social good and evil are likely to bring cybercriminals into the vicinity of school computer rooms.
Therefore, strengthening students’ awareness of network security is also a very important task.
Shijie Yang says
I agree that both ITAC Students and school represent a security information vulnerability to the university.
In our daily lives, our information may suffer some physical and man-made damage. In the era of the developed Internet, we will suffer from some spam and virus links, the firewall of the school website has been attacked, all these belong to the harm of information security, the need to establish a more advanced firewall to block.
In the process of school administrators and users using the system, there may be operational errors or intentional disclosure and deletion of key information is also very terrible, we should take good protection.
Finally, it may be affected by some physical disaster, damage our servers and savings system, resulting in the loss of data.
Zhaomeng Wang says
All represent security vulnerabilities.
Including unauthorized access, weak configuration, phishing information, etc
Xuanwen Zheng says
I think the ITACS students represent both. From a school’s perspective, students may inadvertently introduce vulnerabilities, such as not everyone can identify phishing emails and click in to reply. Some students set a simple password to facilitate memory, or habitually do not update the software; between them, they will share some files or codes, which may be unsafe.
Yiwei Hu says
I think the ITACS students may represent an information security breach for the school, for each other, or for both. This is because students may become potential targets of cyber attacks, especially those with weak awareness of information security, who may inadvertently browse phishing websites and download virus programs through the school network. This can lead to the theft of personal information, which in turn can make the school’s information vulnerable to cyber attacks. On the other hand, the school is also the target of attack, because it holds students’ information data, which are very important personal information. If it is invaded by the virus, it will cause serious consequences.
Yi Liu says
What is vulnerabilities? Any unaddressed susceptibility to an adversarial, accidental, structural or environmental threat is an information security vulnerability. That is a weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that could be exploited or triggered by a threat source.
(1) As a relatively young group, students have insufficient understanding of society and awareness of information security. They are likely to be induced to disclose personal or important information about the school. Therefore, since students are not well educated and regulated, it is likely that they do not realize that their behavior or operation has damaged the security of information.
(2) For the school, the school is a strong community. The school’s basic equipment to store the students, staff and other groups of information. Once the school’s website, the server is hacked, then it is likely that many people’s identity information, personal property will be stolen.
(3) Only by standardizing their own behaviors and enhancing their awareness can students protect their school’s information from being stolen. Only when the school has a good information management system and information monitoring system can students’ information be guaranteed, and they complement each other.
Risk is physical, technical or administrative. Students may cause some operational security vulnerabilities, such as modifying or deleting important data. When storing data, students may leak and transfer unauthorized data due to lack of awareness of information security.
Hao Li says
ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities. Due to their poor awareness of information security, they may open phishing emails or download malicious plug-ins to introduce malicious viruses into the campus and campus network, exposing the campus system to hacker attacks. Therefore, students’ awareness of network information security should be strengthened. The school should carry out regular scanning of vulnerabilities and reinforce the security of the campus network and campus system.
Yue Wang says
I believe that ITACS students could pose an information security vulnerability to the school, to each other or to each other. Vulnerabilities cannot be avoided and the impact on an asset caused by a threat exploiting a vulnerability is a risk, and by the same token, risks are ever-present and can only be mitigated by means. A vulnerability is a flaw in a specific implementation of hardware, software, protocol or system security policy that can be exploited by a threat to attack the system in question and can be accessed or compromised without authorisation.
As users of the campus network, ITACS students access the school web server via the network. If a student’s account is exploited by a virus or other malicious program, or if an intrusion may lead to account compromise, it will have an impact on the information security of the information network accessed by the user, which in turn will affect the safe and stable operation of the overall information system。
Yue Ma says
Students represent information security vulnerabilities to the school and each other. Because students may surf the internet in an unsafe network environment, which can leads to an information leaking issue. In addition, they may click phishing email or website and share their accounts numbers and passwords, as they have lesser safety awareness than college staffs. On the other hand, the leader of students may holds a wealth of sensitive information of other students, like names, addresses, birthdays, and financial information that hackers could hold for ransom or use to perform other attacks.
Xiaozhi Shi says
I believe that ITACS students may pose an information security vulnerability to the school, each other, or both. In the current society, there are three main types of information security problems that students will face: physical security threats, operating system security threats and network security threats. For example, students who fail to follow proper security protocols, such as using weak passwords, not updating software, or falling into phishing scances, may expose their school’s systems and networks to potential threats. Of course, there are many potential vulnerabilities and threats that affect information security, which need students to strengthen vigilance and prevention awareness. Schools should strengthen network monitoring and intrusion detection to maximize information security protection.