Week 1 - Final term.
It has been almost 2 1/2 years since I started this journey towards a Cyber Security degree. In that time-frame, I have gained a great deal of knowledge in this field and feel very confident moving forward. The threat landscape has changed as well. Target, Home Depot and Anthem, as well as many others, were hit very hard, and we are still learning the extent of the breaches, well, as much as they will tell us anyway.
Almost every American was affected by one of those attacks in one way or another yet it seems to be business as usual for them and what did we get out of it? a whopping 2 free years of credit monitoring. For those of us who were impacted by multiple or even all of them, we feel that we get monitoring from one of them and they pay the monthly costs but the other two don't have to pay a thing so in some way, they get off scot free.
So what happens after the 2 years? the hackers sell our data in the mean time and those that have it may act on it or they wait til the monitoring is over and pounce on us. We can feel the burn from these acts for many more years to come, if not for the rest of our lives.
Hey Home depot, Target how about a 50% coupon that my family could use to buy essentials or a new lawn mower, (mine just gave up the ghost)... Anthem, how about extending the Olive branch and give my kids free doctors wellness checkups til they are 18???
Nope, Nada.. Nothing.. Zip.. Zilch, Goose egg for us. They have moved on and don't pay a thing. Did anyone even get fired for this? I don't advocate that sort of tactic just to save face but someone had to have failed and failed big so "Where is my sacrificial Lamb!"
Good fortunes to all.....
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