Cybersecurity

[JaniceSW]

How important do you think it is that the U.S. have a cybersecurity policy and a dedicated workforce which monitors this issue?  I know that a taskforce is highly recommending that Trump address this and forms some sort of department which is highly dedicated to monitoring and countersecurity measures.  I believe it has already been on the FBI/CIA radar, but I guess this would be a more formal, standardized policy/department.

[Liquidfire_43]

It is very important to have a solid cyber security policy in this modern age. Since technology is advancing pretty  rapidly, we need to have strong security implementations and protection against threats that could affect it.

A good portion of the people in the world depend on technology to gain information/knowledge, express themselves, live, make there lives easier, travel, etc. If we don't have a good or strong policy regarding cybersecurity, black hat hackers will be able to control, ruin, and steal without any repressions.

I don't agree with the government having a backdoor to everything and also monitoring our activities online, but security regarding public and private sectors could improve. I read an IT article and they state that the systems that use Windows XP are vulnerable to exploits and such. And at the time, nearly all the private sector computers still use a version of XP in the system. Companies don't want to implement a new OS system in their computers because mainly.. it is costly. Work production will suffer because people are used to using a XP system and also because they are familiar with the OS (compared to others) and also they have to upgrade their old systems (which could cost millions or billions of dollars). I hope there is a good policy that bridges the cost and implementation of new secure systems

[darkxtsuna]

wow just saw this and just wanted to say my Amazon account got hacked by some Muslim person or someone trying to be it the name was something along the lines of alharr or something like that don't really recall but panicked and called amazon and they fixed me up right away that person ordered some apple products but now its cancelled and my cards/account info is safe. Going to change all my passwords and such in case now.