CS155 Computer and Network Security

Describe your personal approach for common web practices like e-commerce, online banking, and general web browsing. Describe how these continued cyberattacks have changed the way you use the internet and share your personal experience. Be sure you address at least one of the following perspectives in your main post:

Concerns you may have about the safety and security of your personal information

Preventive steps you use to ensure safety of personal data

Whether you have been a victim of compromised information due to a cybersecurity attack

Cybersecurity attacks

Let’s face it, the cybersecurity attacks have become a scary issue for the data security for companies, federal government and colleges and this has increased over the years. In most of these attacks the hackers usually steal personal information (Singer & Friedman, 2014). on my personal approach to the web practices such as e-commerce when I want to purchase a given product I always make sure that my browser is secure so as to prevent the attackers from utilizing on my personal data when I use my login credentials as well as credit card details. On the aspect of the general web browsing i usually only access the websites which have verified security certificate. Now days, there are many website which have been developed by the hackers which looks similar as the common one we use on our daily basis such as the yahoo, and e-commerce website, therefore when one access them using their details these are shared with the hackers who in turn access personal information (Ten, Manimaran & Liu, 2010). The cyber-attacks have made me to be more cautious to the way i use the internet and share my personal data.

Preventive step to ensure safety of personal data.

One way which has made me secure my personal data has been the establishment of a strong password when using site e-commerce site to make purchases or when carrying out online banking. Implementation of a strong password is the easiest and simplest way one could strengthen on their security (Singer & Friedman, 2014). Moreover, it is also important to use a convenient password checker to see how strong the password is. Another way to keep my personal data secure from the attackers is installation off the antivirus protection to the program I use. Antivirus as well as the ant-malware are the most essential arsenal when it comes to the online security. This is the last line of defense in case unwanted attacker was to access my network.

References

Singer, P. W., & Friedman, A. (2014). Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press.

Ten, C. W., Manimaran, G., & Liu, C. C. (2010). Cybersecurity for critical infrastructures: Attack and defense modeling. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, 40(4), 853-865.