The Focus of Advancement in the United States’ Civilization
The focus of advancement in the United States’ civilization is critical infrastructure. The country’s economic and national security rely on the smooth operation of key infrastructure that was once independent and not connected to the internet (AlDosari, 2017 p 289). Threats and attacks on essential infrastructure are becoming a growing worry as connectivity becomes more convenient. The attacks are becoming more severe, and if cyber and physical threats such as collaborative privacy protection, global and domestic reliance, and security protocols are not addressed, the impact will be so severe that there will be an urgent need to develop countermeasures to mitigate attacks on critical infrastructure. The Impact of Ignoring Cyber and Physical Attacks
Cyber-attacks on Corporate Organizations
Cyber-attacks on corporate organizations can lead to the erosion of intellectual assets, which could threaten its future (Wu & Chen 2016 p 807). It can be devastating to learn that valuable intellectual property is in unknown places. For an American government lab, foreign agents could be trying to steal blueprints for another system of weapons. At a biopharmaceutical company, scientist workers might take confidential information on a possible cancer cure. The terrifying part is that information is kept in data form rather than file cabinets and manila folder hence a breach might take longer than weeks or months to be discovered. The intellectual property forms the center of companies in the 21-st century, the first motor behind growth, competitiveness, innovation, and the economy in general (Kube, 2015).
Cyber-attacks as the Most Significant Security Threat
When ignored, cyber-attacks can be the most significant security threat to the country of US. Nearly half of the government data breaches occurring today are due to hackings by contractors or government workers (Kazan, 2016). Cybercrimes today rank higher than terrorism as the most significant threat to the nation’s security. When an effort to safeguard sensitive national information is ignored, state workers begin to undermine efforts of defense. The incidences of security nearly happen by accident because of employees logging into websites that host malware and then clicking on malicious links as they are tricked to share private data social engineering threats. In spite of their sources, events of security are happening more regularly than before and leading to significant issues.
Loss of Earnings and Economic Crisis
Cyber and Physical attacks can lead to loss of earnings and lead to an economic crisis. Almost 80 percent of cyber-attacks are said to come from some organized activity (Sinha, Nguyen, Kar, Brown, Tambe, & Jiang, 2015). The crimes continue to advance in techniques and modes of targeting victims. Some of the most common cyber-crimes that are likely to escalate include account takeover, hacktivism, increased application of manually aided threats, and privatization of banking and mobile attacks. Activities of cybercrime across the world are diffused financially supported acts. Computer-related fraud is becoming prevalent and constitutes a third of cyber operations worldwide (Heinl, 2014). Another relevant section of acts of cybercrime that could be on the rise is by content on the computers such as child pornography terrorism acts. Furthermore crimes relating to integrity confidentiality, and accessibility of systems of equipment are also likely to increase. These crimes involve illegal access to networks of the computer, which constitutes a third of all acts. It is evident that cybercrime has a significant impact on national laws and the effectiveness of the law enforcement.
Mitigation of Future Cyber and Physical Attacks by Information Technology Education
Education in cyber technology can help to mitigate the risk of cyber and physical threats in the future. To begin with, the department of education in Information Technology should impart advanced skills that target to embrace only the HPC technologies which guarantee that their environment of Information Technology is continuously secure, flexible and fast for their workload of analytics, modeling, and simulation (Kazan, 2016). HPC solutions can enable businesses to protect highly sensitive information, from the instance, it is created and evaluated, to the point of access across the network, moved to the data bank and archived, or deleted. Different types of organizations ranging from commercial to academia to government require a resilient and secure avenue that delivers the best accomplishment, encourages high-density workloads, and offers all-around server security without affecting application performance. The best HPC programmes that have distinctive secure computer lifecycle present the best combination of efficiency, scale, and performance alongside the comprehensive security features lodged within the firmware to enable businesses to exploit the entire power of their information. Besides dramatically decreasing their risk to the breach of security, it can also quickly recover data and the system in case of the violation.
Enforceable Standards and Global Internet Stability
As tricky as cybercrimes are, they can be mitigated in the future of the United States if education in modern Information technology undertakes new innovative steps. The relevant department would organize and research ways of operating across national administrations to create stability of the internet system across the world (Dodge & Futcher, 2013 p 125). A world Information Technology body would combine efforts to form international standards, safeguard infrastructure and adopt standard ways of building a stronger future internet. Such an initiative could progress further than the present institutions can perform. However, it would also develop and encourage enforceable standards to be undertaken by the current educational entities. The key is to combine efforts by institutions offering advanced skills in cybersecurity, instead of depending on few focused professional organizations.
Protection of Critical Infrastructures
The body could safeguard the internet backbone of critical infrastructure including those entities, which are systematically significant to internet stability. The organization could assist create or adopt from the current professional groups, a suitable measure to build great resilience for such vital infrastructures. It could also encourage planning for contingency for cross-border problem crisis in or during the reaction to attacks in the future. These actions exceed the ability of one single institution and no professional group working fewer numbers has the ability for a world enforceable way like contingency planning.
Standards for the Internet of Things
Education in Information Technology could form an enforceable series of standards for the quickly evolving internet of things (Martin, 2015 p). Such connectivity is accompanied by pledges of higher standards of living, lower costs, and more significant efficiencies. However, attacks in the recent past show that internet of things is quickly exploited for further cyber-attacks, rise in particular threats, and lead to a structural breakdown of critical infrastructures including health care, food chains, and transportation.
Conclusion
Advancement in technology has been accompanied by more advanced threats and attacks on cyber and physical security. Cyber potential has become a primary component of contemporary life, and current educational institutions of Information and Technology are required to protect it from future attacks. Today, no entity has enough capacity or information to develop an evaluation greater than one founded only on sector-specific or public grounds of emerging threats to the internet stability (Heinl, 2014 p 132). In the international initiative by the education, entity in Information technology could assist in guaranteeing that international and national leaders, relevant world leadership bodies, and professional bodies can successfully promote global internet stability while reducing the systematic threat.
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