Name: Isis Jordan
Date: February 2, 2019
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Over the years the advancement of technology has sky rocketed and the use alone of the online world has increased. From the way we communicate with each other using our handheld devices and computers, or even the applications we use on our phones, tablets, computers, and any other devices that are able to access the internet and or the online social sites we use also has grown. Also, the way people are able to conduct business from starting a new one or improving their current one can increase their business by the promotion of using the internet. The way our society is advancing is requiring technology to advance at the same or even faster rate. We demand more out of our technology and companies are doing their best to keep up with the constant wants and needs of the society. “About 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet in 2020, most of them barely protected, a fact that implies as many potential doors for hackers to intrude in our devices, our companies, our homes and personal lives” (Ommeren). But if there were not set rules and regulations to help keep certain information and data protected and safe then what is the point of security. If there was no security, then there would be open access to people’s personal information. Banking would be exploited, also identity theft would be huge. Personal information and location services would be exposed to potentially criminals or people wanting to access that information. There has to be rules and regulations to help aren’t in the security of the online world, with the number of hackers trying to do damage to major companies, our government, and innocent civilians we have to have security. And without cyber security to fight off hackers, viruses then the internet would be an unsafe world. “The cyber security game will not have an end, and there will be no definite winners and losers, but that end can be replaced with the persistent pursuit of strategic advantage, a rebalancing of the equation between attacker and defender” (Ommeren).
References
Ommeren, Erik Van, et al. Staying Ahead in the Cyber Security Game . Sogeti and IBM, 2014.