Cybersecurity: Crash Course Computer Science #31
Cybersecurity is a set of techniques to protect the secrecy, integrity, and availability of computer systems and data against threats. In today's episode, we're going to unpack these three...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! Over the last three episodes, we’ve talked about how computers have become interconnected, allowing us to communicate near-instantly across the globe. But, not everyone who uses these networks is going to play by the rules, or have our best interests at heart. Just as how we have physical security like locks, fences and police officers to minimize crime in the real world, we need cybersecurity to minimize crime and harm in the virtual world. Computers don’t have ethics. Give them a formally specified problem and they’ll happily pump out an answer at lightning speed. Running code that takes down a hospital’s computer systems until a ransom is paid is no different to a computer than ...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! Over the last three episodes, we’ve talked about how computers have become interconnected, allowing us to communicate near-instantly across the globe. But, not everyone who uses these networks is going to play by the rules, or have our best interests at heart. Just as how we have physical security like locks, fences and police officers to minimize crime in the real world, we need cybersecurity to minimize crime and harm in the virtual world. Computers don’t have ethics. Give them a formally specified problem and they’ll happily pump out an answer at lightning speed. Running code that takes down a hospital’s computer systems until a ransom is paid is no different to a computer than ...
