David Meece challenged me to do this and so here we go. (Thanks to David. This is a great dare to have been given and accepted.) Day 1 - May 1 - Mayday! May Day seems an appropriate day to launch my 100 days of cybersecurity campaign. My intention over the next 100 days is to present cybersecurity cybersecurity concepts and topics in “byte”-sized pieces. I’ll use plain-english to explain complex issues. I have three goals: 1. To demystify cybersecurity for non-technical users of the internet, 2. to encourage everyone to accept the role they have in the cybersecurity realm, and 3. to help everyone recognize the interdisciplinary nature of cybersecurity. Along with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and military fields, I will incorporate art, social sciences, history, and bible studies that shape the discipline we know as cybersecurity. Mayday is the distress signal used on voice procedure radio communication. I call Mayday. This distress is our ambiguous understanding of cyberspace. It puts all of us in danger. Everyone has some of their personal data online, whether you put it there or not. Credit card companies keep your data on their servers. Medical offices and health insurance companies store your medical records in databases. Your banks and credit unions maintain your accounts in bits and bytes. If you don’t have an understanding of how it all works, you are at greater risk. Let’s fix that! The internet and the world wide web, while often used interchangeably, are two different entities. The internet is, in the simplest terms, a network of networks. In the same way the intrastate highway is the road system within a state’s borders and the interstate is the highway that runs between states, the intranet is the network within an organization and the internet is the collection of connected networks. The internet was created from a US government research project on January 1, 1983. The world wide web (WWW) is an information system for documents and other resources, like web pages, that are shared publicly. It is important to note that most of the information traveling on the internet is not on the world wide web. The WWW was created at CERN by a British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, on April 30, 1989. Happy belated 30th Birthday, World Wide Web! Day 2’s Topic - The struggle between convenience and security. #100daysofcyberchallenge #cybertechdave100daysofcyberchallenge #cybersecurityineasypieces
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