Cybersecurity: What happens when institutions are attacked?
Getting robbed at gunpoint and having someone break into your home after disabling your security system — these are a couple ways cybersecurity professionals describe the dangers of the cyberworld.
The internet, and all it holds, may not be a physical place, but experts such as John Ziegler stress that the danger is real. Ziegler is an associate provost for information and administrative technology services at Slippery Rock University. His job is to defend the school from prying cyber eyes.
“The best way to think about it is as a house,” Ziegler said. “You have perimeters around the house like firewalls and then in the house you have protocols to manage access so a lot of that is done with hardware. We have things in place to verify who is suppose to be here.”
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