Society today is plagued with crime that is difficult to combat, constantly changing, and has no borders; this type of crime is called cybercrime. The United States of America is attacked on a daily basis by cyber criminals both foreign and domestic. The crimes committed involve fraud, identity theft, theft of proprietary trade secrets, and even theft of national secrets. The 2009 Internet Crime Report indicates there were 336,655 received cybercrime complaints in 2009 and a total monetary loss of $559.7 million (“2009 Internet Crime Report,” 2009). Cybercrime affects everyone; therefore, individuals, corporations, and government entities are responsible for safeguarding information against these attacks. Clearly, a unified front must …show more content…
Mandating cyber security controls; although for the public good, will most likely be resisted as well. In March of 2010, The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama. The law was passed and put in place health insurance reforms that hold insurance companies accountable, lower health care costs, and guarantee more choice involving health care (“Understanding the Affordable Care Act,” 2010). The law was considered to be for the public good; however, it was immediately met with resistance. Shortly after the law was passed, attorneys general in 14 states filed suit on grounds that the law was unconstitutional (Kranish, 2010). Mandating cyber security controls will be met with similar resistance unless the government can provide strong justification for the action. Direct and aggressive cyber security attacks against the United States of America from a foreign country, provides a strong case for the justification of mandating cyber security controls. Recent government reports and news releases implicate foreign countries in targeting government entities, individuals, and corporations with hopes of compromising important information. One example of a country specifically targeting the United States’ information pool is the People’s Republic of China. The 2009 Report to Congress
The recent trend in the global business has been largely driven by the mechanism of the internet and more broadly the cyberspace. This has created a more elaborate platform for all business activities to be coordinated through an information system protocols. The information system is the management of the information data base of an organization or an institution. Information is assumed to be a significant asset, organisations strive to gather, retain and protect their valuable intellectual property to place them in a prominent business platform over their competitors.
We have to approve the Cybersecurity Act in order to protect ourselves as American people, from predators and harmful online hackers. Cybersecurity is highly needed in today’s society since this generation is a high tech, online generation. Since everything is moving towards computers and technology, we will need to protect our information to keep us, (especially American people since everyone hates us for many sensible reasons, even Americans their selves) and the world safe. We need to do anything and everything we can to have protection against online hackers, predators, terrorists, and cyber-criminals who want to use our and the world’s information for evil. We must do what we can to stop them in their path to keep them from accessing our private information to share with others, or use against us.
Cyber security, also referred to as information technology security, focuses on protecting computers, networks, software programs and data from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction. Post 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, the United States grows its endeavors to repulse cyberattacks, U.S. corporate organizations and the government agencies wind up in strife over how to adjust to new methods of security and privacy. The current state of security measure protocols and privacy policies placed by the US government in cyberspace raises concerns for the 99%. This is due to the recent cyber-attacks on American corporate organization systems and government alike, where their digital information and network infrastructures within the systems were compromised, and personal data was hacked and stolen.
China is responsible for cyber espionage against the U.S. resulting in significant damage to the U.S. economy. The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property found that, China is responsible for up to 70% of incurred losses of the U.S. (Navarro 2016). The Center for Strategic and
Over the past twenty years, the Internet’s role in our lives has grown to an everyday necessity. We rely on the Internet to communicate within the scope of our employment and social lives, to conduct our banking and bill paying, we even use it to track our personal property. There is hardly one area of our lives that we can not conduct over the Internet. While the Internet is a convenience that has made our lives easier, it has also opened the door in our lives to a vulnerability that is rapidly being exploited by cyber criminals. Cyber crimes are growing at an exponential rate in the United States and we, the consumers/end users are unaware of the liabilities a simple click on the wrong button can cause. This paper will
There are many countries where terrorist activities are simply a part of life and where criminal activities are commonplace. Even in well-developed countries there can be problems. One of the most insidious of these activities, however, is cybercrime. It may seem less dangerous because it is not physically damaging to the person who is being targeted, but gaining access toa person's private information can cause serious damage to that person's good name and reputation, along with his or her credit, ability to obtain employment, and other parts of life. Something has to be done, but by the time issues are corrected there are new issues appearing. It can feel like a losing battle. Because of constant technological change, new challenges are arising regarding information access and privacy.
Cyber capabilities are evolving rapidly every day which makes cyber-attacks more prevalent in the present day. In the U.S., the most notable and highly debated international cyber-attacks tie back to China. “For years, the United States has argued that economic espionage by governments is wrong and should stop”. It was not until recently that the United States made this argument heard. In September of 2015, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Chinese governments had reached a deal against cyber espionage. There are many different explanations as to what the causes are that ultimately led the U.S. and China to reach this agreement including, efforts to promote international norm, loss of sensitive information and economic
The past 15 years the U.S. has been in a C.O.I.N. fight that has brought its own unique challenges and with our attention gathered wholly for this undertaking a new threat immerged virtually unnoticed. Cyber threats have been gaining more traction in the media as of late with several countries linked to these type of attacks, with China leading the forefront.
As Renda described in his cybersecurity research, “Cybersecurity is now a leading concern for major economies”. Threats have risen as the Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the global economy. China, the country with the most population in the world, cannot be vulnerable for hackers to attack. The impact of cyberattacks could be unimaginable since human beings have not experienced this sort of high-technology attack, which could be characterized as a digital world war three. The magnitude of the cyber attack could be human extinctions since the cyber terrorists are very likely to target nuclear weapons and destroy the whole world. Also, a successful attack without any blocking from firewall would take milliseconds, couldn’t be stopped, and escalates, because the time lag between collecting information and react is quite short. The regulation and restrictions on Internet is the only way to avoid the risk of nuclear war. The universal correlation of globalization and Internet controls could be characterized as the further the Internet could reach, the more strict the Internet censorship will be. This correlation could be seen from all around the world. For example, according to Renda’s research, the Obama administration, which has most recently championed Internet freedom initiatives abroad, is said to be cooperating with private telecoms
In the recent years the world has experienced a paradigm in digital security. With current events such as Edward Snowden’s NSA Leaks and the FBI vs Apple case, the nation seems to be becoming more aware the the injustices done against the American public and violations against our most basic rights, security and privacy.
Somewhat echoing president Obama’s concerns. (Cyberwar: The Challenge to National Security Nathalie Caplan 2013, Volume 4)
The following document will provide information pertaining to presidential administrations both past and present and their respective views on cybersecurity policies. Policies of each administration will be reviewed and summarized, noting actions taken to secure a more resilient, dependable, cyberspace. Additionally,
People across the world are becoming disproportionately dependent on modern day technology, which results in more vulnerability to cyber-attacks including cybersecurity breaches. Today, the world continues to experience inordinate cases of cybersecurity meltdowns. There is a rapid growth in complexity and volume of cyber-attacks, and this undermines the success of security measures put in place to make the cyberspace secure for users. Cyber-attacks on both private and public information systems are a major issue for information security as well as the legal system. While most states require government organizations and certain federal vendors to report incidences of data breaches, no equivalent legislation exists to cover private entities.
Cybercrime is a crime that is done using the internet (Burton, 2007). Cybercrime is growing as the internet has grown in popularity. We now use the internet to conduct business, to do banking, for our healthcare, and to communicate with our friends and family. The internet holds an amazing amount of information on people and businesses. The internet gives those who want to use this information for illegal purposes, a tool to access unlimited information. As the growth of the internet has exploded, so has cybercrime. Understanding how these crimes are committed, and how to protect information on the internet is vital.
Cybercrime has become a fast growing concern for the 21st century as businesses, institutions and individuals grow into an interconnected web of computer networks. Online business transactions, along with the sharing of personal information, are vulnerable to a host of disasters that can reap economic and social havoc. Some sources say that today, cybercrime costs more than $1.0 trillion to society--Global Industry Analysts, Inc. forecasted the world cyber security market to reach $80 billion by 2017 (Gale, 2011).