Home > Newsletters > October 2010 - Volume 5, Issue 10 - Why is
Cyber Security Important October 2010 - Volume 5, Issue 10 - Why
is Cyber Security Important October is Cyber Security Awareness
Month In recognition of the 2010 National Cyber Security
Awareness Month, this edition of the newsletter is designed to
focus attention on the basics of cyber security and how users
can protect themselves online. Many aspects of our lives rely on
the Internet and computers, including communications (email,
cell phones, texting), transportation (traffic control signals,
car engine systems, airplane navigation), government
(birth/death records, social security, licensing, tax records),
finance (bank accounts, loans, electronic paychecks), medicine
(equipment, medical records), and education (virtual classrooms,
online report cards, research). Consider how much of your
personal information is stored either on your own computer or on
someone else’s system. How is that data and the systems on which
that data resides (or is t