Computer Science and Cybersecurity both directly relate to Cybersecurity technology. Cybersecurity is obvious in that it utilizes all of the cybersecurity technology. An example is Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). These are set up in systems in companies in order to detect when a potential incident is happening and allows the system admin to monitor these incidents. This allows the security team a chance to be ahead of all security incidents.

Computer Science relates to cybersecurity technology in the coding aspect. Computer Science is all about learning how to talk to computer through programming languages. Python, a popular programming language, is common in cybersecurity. Python is learned in my Computer Science major, and is used in cybersecurity to create scripts and programs. An example is using Python to create TCP/UDP clients and servers. This is something that I just recently learned how to do. It is mostly used for testing purposes when it comes to penetration testing and ethical hacking. That way, the ethical hacker can test out their techniques without actually damaging anything.

Four other majors that I selected are biology, communication, criminal justice, and international studies. Biology relates to cybersecurity because when I think of biology, I think of hospitals. Hospitals contain so much private patient information. This private information is kept secure through cybersecurity. Without proper cybersecurity, these systems are vulnerable and a lot of private information about a lot of people are available for anyone to take them. Communication relates to cybersecurity because part of the cybersecurity field is being able to communicate with employees outside of the security team about ways they can better practice good cybersecurity in their daily work life. Not being able to get this communication to them is causing another vulnerability. Criminal Justice relates to cybersecurity because courthouses and prisons both have a ton of information about defendants that needs to stay secure. If they do not have proper security, private information about a lot of people are vulnerable. Finally, international studies relates to cybersecurity because cyber attacks are becoming more and more common in the world. An IS major needs to know how strong other countries systems’ are and keep up with what information they are losing in attacks. It’s also important to understand what countries, like Russia, for example, are the ones doing a lot of the attacks.