Journal Entry #4: Compare Cybersecurity Risks in the U.S. and Another Country.
Cybersecurity risks can be found in any part of the world located within all country parameters where there are vulnerabilities and even where there are no vulnerabilities present. After reading the article, “Chinese Hacking Operations Have Entered a Far More Dangerous Phase, U.S. Warns,” I have learned that there are countries, such as China, where there are risks in cyber security after doing my own research on this topic. Issues such as cyber theft, intellectual property, and hacking into large databases and security systems is becoming more prevalent in this country as a tactic based on finding means of control. However, hackers are targeting various elements within a company such as infrastructure, water treatment plants, electrical grid, oil and natural gas pipelines, transportation systems, electrical grid, oil and gas pipelines, and transportation systems. Technological harm is primarily only done when a hacker/scammer is able to target a vulnerability that is then executed through various methods of interaction to allow the victim to fall for the trap set initially. Just because there is vulnerability present does not always mean an attack will be easier or harder to maintain or execute for the hacker/scammer. The victim is not always subject to become a proponent to the attack either. It is important to stay alert, prepared, and up to date in cyber security in order to ward off attacks such as these described in China.
Cybersecurity risks have caused a rise in negative consequences for the Chinese government according to the article. The havoc arising from natural environmental causes from the cyber security destruction caused Americans to become unable to get to work, they couldn’t take their kids to school, or get people to the hospital safely. If this could be imagined as a domino effect, it is easy to see that pipeline after pipeline just fell as more destruction carried out throughout the country. These are only a few natural disasters caused. Other natural disasters like telecommunications going down so people couldn’t use their cell phones, people started getting sick from polluted water, trains get derailed, air traffic control systems and port control systems malfunctioning overtime. China is still undertaking those activities, “but this is unique in that it’s prepositioning on critical infrastructure, on military networks, to be able to deliver effects at the time and place of their choosing so that they can disrupt our ability to support military activities or to distract us, to get us to focus on, you know, a domestic incident at a time when something’s flaring up in a different part of the world and they don’t want us facing the foreign aspects of that,” the official said.
