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First and foremost, I want to say thank you to Professor Blodgett for your honest feedback
and pushing me in this course to be better. Additionally, to my fellow classmates it has been a
pleasure getting to know some of you throughout this course and hope we eventually cross
paths in the future.
Part I: Why is the use of cyber perhaps the greatest future threat the US faces?
Cyber is a large part of what society has become in the 21
st
century. According to our readings
this week cyber security is defined as the defense against cyber threats of systems linked to
the internet, including hardware, software, and data. Individuals and businesses both utilize
this technique to prevent illegal access to data centers and other digital systems (Shea et al.,
2023). Cyber is the greatest threat the US faces because everything is tied to the internet
anymore. For example, banking, I remember when I had my first bank account there was no
digital login or where you could look online how much money you had in your account. Prior,
people had to balance their checking accounts from what they were spending and if you were
not keeping track of it you could potentially bounce a check. Today, before you make any
purchase you can simply login from your phone and see what available funds you have which
makes it easier but also easier for criminals to steal your identity. Cyber is the next war in my
opinion because it only takes a click of a button to start. There are many people out there that
are extremely smart and wanting to destroy the United States and cyber is the way to do that
from a far. If you haven’t noticed by now China is trying to destroy us via cyber means and
their long-term plan is to beat us without even having to fight us Militarily.
Part II: Discuss how our civil liberties are under attack via cyber and what needs to be done
by the nation to protect them. If you believe that nothing can be done, then explain why you
feel this way.
Our civil liberties are under attack because people put so much of their information out and
once it is out, they don’t want it shared or complain that it is being shared. The rights of
freedom of speech or actions are rights of American Citizens but if a person puts information
out there it is not secure anymore. I feel like I deal with this daily with my juniors. They are
so technology sound, but they have no common sense in my opinion. They will share on
social media something they are doing wrong and not supposed to be doing that violates the
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) so everyone can see it. Now, I am not saying to go
out and do wrong things but what I am saying is that when a person shares information to the
world it is not longer private at that point. In my opinion we as people do it to ourselves
because of the rise of social media, internet, and ect.
I had a great time in this class and hope everyone does well on this final assignment and your
future endeavors.
References:
Shea, S., Gillis, A. S., & Clark, C. (2023, January 11).
What is cybersecurity? everything you
need to know: TechTarget
. Security.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/cybersecurity
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