Security Awareness

     Security awareness is on the rise as the world becomes more advanced with technology and with these advances comes a great risk and power to have the everyday person not know what could be going on with there computer if in fact something terrible happens to it. People need to understand what the tell tail signs are when there computers are givings warnings or lying with fake look alike warnings! People should really keep there computers up-to-date and not leave their computer unprotected, those types of computers are the easier ones to gain access to faster and unnoticeable.

The contest by educause wants people to develop either a 2 minute video, a 30 second service announcement, or a poster talking about how people can secure there self's better when it come to crime watching. My impression of this contest would be that it is a great way to get people to explore more to show the average person that really doesn't know to much about computer security and simply easy ways to protect themselves from potential harmful users! The cyber watch people have been around since 2005 and work to provide people knowledge on either becoming a instructor, or just helping and showing people the wide verity that cyber watch has to offer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx2Xis3ztcM&list=PL44A766A8A3E0C2DA
Here is a short 7 minute video a little about cyberwatch

In the group project for the class my group is doing cyber safety.

There is a real question in this photo is the computer really safe and is the Internet as a hole safe too?? There are people and programs out there designed to ruin and destroy people with taking their personal information and taking over there computer knowingly and sometime not knowingly. The computers and Internet today is very far advanced people have gotten more clever with what and how they can hack or steal things!! This is where people need to bring there safety up while using the Internet because you never who or what can be taken at any given moment while using the computers!

this pie chart shows how people think they are ALWAYS safe when in fact that is simply not true! there is a low chance that you are always safe online, mostly with proper protection and watching what it is you are doing then yes because if you pay attention it is you are doing then you can keep yourself safe most of the time. This is where people need more information because we cant have everyone thinking they are always safe because that when people don't worry about what "could" happen to them because there not worried about it.

Is the Internet safe for the most part yes it is, when you apply the proper protection and don't fall for fake look alike then yes you can keep yourself safe, but don't let your guard down because at any point in one day something could happen to you!