What Is Cybersecurity?

1. What Is Cybersecurity? Brian K. Payne, PhD Vice Provost Department of Sociology and Criminal Jutsice Old Dominion University

2. What is cybersecurity? • An interdisciplinary field of study • An academic major • A process • A social problem • A business problem • A privacy issue • An individual concern • A possible business • A possible career

3. What is cybersecurity? – an interdisciplinary field of study

4. What is cybersecurity? – an academic major

5. What is cybersecurity? – a process

6. What is cybersecurity?: A social problem • Virtually all human behavior is social • Technology is used in social behaviors • Technological solutions only work when the solutions are accepted by humans • Cybercrime is a social construct • Social consequences effected by social status • Alex Kreilien writes: “Meet Tanya. She is an unmarried, American or European, female. She is thirty-five, has a lower-income job, a child, and owns a low-income home. Like many other westerners, she lives paycheck to paycheck, mostly uses a pre-paid debit card she got at a convenience store, banks at a community bank, and shops at discount stores and uses urgent care centers when she or her children fall ill. She has few if any institutions to protect her. The institutions she patronizes likely have little to no effective cybersecurity infrastructure and staff. But merely by the fact that she is a westerner, she is a target. Yet, she has to defend herself from attackers — because no one else can. And she’s totally getting owned — without even knowing it. She’ll never bounce back. • Now meet Anna. She is a married, American or European, female. She is also thirty-five but she has a law degree, a well-paying job, many major credit cards, a personal banker, a Bergdorf personal shopper, and a personal chef. She uses a world-class health system when she or her children fall ill. She lives her life interfacing with high-quality institutions who defend her from attackers. Her wealth has helped her inherit the best practices of cybersecurity each and every step of the way. She’s getting owned too — but she gets alerted, insured, made whole again, and protected by her institutions crushing it on their security game. She bounced back before you got done reading this”

7. What is cybersecurity?: A Business Problem • All businesses that are connected to the Internet should be concerned about cybersecurity. • Businesses weigh risk versus costs • Outsider threat • Insider threat Source: Glen Carstens-Peters, Unsplash

8. What is cybersecurity? • A privacy issue • Data is forever • Businesses are able to learn a lot about consumer behavior. • Ethical issues • Exercise: Take fifteen minutes and find out everything you can about yourself by Googling your name. What would others learn about you?

9. What is cybersecurity?: An Individual Concern • An individual concern • Risks for victimization • Viruses • Fraud • Bullying • Consequences • Personal • Financial • Physical • Loss of time Source: Ryan Franco, Unsplash

10. What is cybersecurity? A possible business. • Cyber operations • Cyber consulting • Cyber training • Cyber products • Cybersecurity sales • Cybersecurity commercialization Source: AdeoluElutu, Unsplash

11. What is cybersecurity?: A Career (cyberseek.org)

12. What is cybersecurity? – An ODU course • Developed through interdisciplinary effort involving: • Information Technology • Business • Engineering • Computer Science • Criminal Justice • Philosophy • Students must take: • Interdisciplinary writing (IDS 300W) • Internship or entrepreneurship class (CYSE 368 or 494) • ePortfolio (IDS 493)

13. Student Role in Cybersecurity • Potential victims • Current and Future Workers • Current and Future Defenders of Cyberspace • Current and Future Researchers • Current and Future Offenders • Current and Future Educators • Future Policy Makers Source: Nesa by Makers, Unsplash