This is a summery of "Secure Cyberspace", one of the grand challenges of engineering.
Cyberspace is a newly formed system in late 20th century, but it poses many great challenges that engineers have ever met. Those challenges range from protection of privacy and completeness of the information to prevention of ID theft. Nowadays, Our daily life as well as military, economy and emergency services, more and more relies on the cyberspace. Any of these aspects of modern society can be easily influenced by cyberspace disruption. Till now, some important parts of cybersecurity have been protected well. However, ID theft and other cybercrimes are still serious problems and the cases of crime are increasing. Therefore, the security system should be improved as cybercrime becomes a serious problem for the Internet.
There are several ways to prevent malicious access to information and delivery of confidential messages.
The traditional way to protect computer is to install firewalls to prevent attacks. But the firewalls are not always workable and can be destroyed. Thus, engineers need to find new solutions. One better solution is to ask use relevant technologies to alternate both software and hardware of computers. For example the fingerprint security uses biometric technologies which requires instruments of scanning the fingerprint as well as the software to support the hardware. Another way to solve the problems is to develop better programming language which can increase the capacity of resistance of software to attacks.
After detecting problems, the process of fix and recovery is also important. What's more, chasing who are criminals may reduce to possibility of crimes in future.
Finally, a full-scale understanding of cyberspace problems should be emphasized since the problems may not be caused by individuals or organizations without any reasons. People are easily affected by surrounding social or cultural environment which may lead them to commit crimes.
Therefore, raising people’s understanding of psychology and sociology may help to reduce the rate of crime on cyberspace and law or regulations also should be strengthened by governments.
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In present context, governments have to set priorities on the security of cyberspace as there is an increasing development of IT technologies. People are better educated and well-informed via IT resources. Unfortunately, some may abuse and lead to the vulnerabilities and risks involved in cyberspace. IT-trained engineers could set in to tighten the security level to hinder any threats or risks.
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