Cybersecurity and its Differing Definitions

What is cybersecurity? According to Fredrick Chang, former Director of Research at the National Security Agency (NSA) cybersecurity, "offers many opportunities for advances based on a multidisciplinary approach". That quote was taken from paper written by Dan Craigen, Nadia Diakun-Thibault, and Randy Purse for Technology Innovation Management Review. The paper went on to describe cybersecurity being a collection of resources that prevent malicious attacks towards people and their technological property rights. The exact definition given in this paper was, "cybersecurity is the organization and collection of resources, processes, and structures used to protect cyberspace and cyberspace-enabled systems from occurrences that misalign de jure from defacto property rights." Kaspersky describes cybersecurity as, "the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks." According to Section 225 in the Homeland Security Act, cybersecurity is the act of defending from "cyber crimes". Each source has slightly different information, but I think the TIMReview article gives the most accurate definition.

Scholar Reference:

https://www.timreview.ca/article/835

Primary Reference:

https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-act-2002

Secondary Reference:

https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-cyber-security

IS101 and How it Will Help Me

Hello everyone, I'm looking forward to this semester of IS101 with you all. My name is Shane and I'm born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. An interesting fact about me is that I have played hockey for a little over a decade now. I played for the Jr. Golden Knights in their inaugural and second season. As for school, I am currently seeking an Associate of Business, but I will likely transfer to UNLV before I have the credits needed to acquire my 2-year degree. I plan on double majoring at UNLV in Finance and Real Estate, due to my current career being a real estate appraiser. Despite the extra major, I only need 3 more classes if I use my electives wisely. I might consider an MBA, but a bachelor's degree is really all that's needed for commercial real estate, specifically appraisal. I'm not a fan of school, but I think that once I get to my upper-level courses, time will fly by and I will have my two bachelor's degrees before I know it.

My expectations for IS101 is to have at least the MOS-Associate certification by the end of the semester. I might consider getting MOS-Expert as well, but given my current resume I don't think MOS certifications will be a huge asset in my career. I've used Word and Excel for many years now, but that doesn't mean I know everything about each software, so I look forward to learning more that way I can be more effective at my current job. I've already learned more about Outlook in the past week than I have in 2 1/2 years at a Fortune 200 company. Despite being a 101 course, I believe it is equally as important as some of the upper-level courses. I look forward to seeing the return on investment this class will give me.