Overview 

In this day and age cybersecurity is vital for the safety of you and your information,  with identity theft on the rise, it is more important than ever to keep your information safe. This website focuses on informing you of current risks businesses and people are facing on a regular basis as well as give you a general overview on protection.

This website aims to review the basics of cyber security/privacy, the social effects and ramifications cybersecurity, the effects of it in businesses, current events in the cybersecurity industry, and provide visual data to emphasize points. 

Project Background: This page provides you with basic introduction to cybersecurity, a general summary of the history of cyber security, and a background to why cyber security is so important.

The Basics: This section consists of three parts, the first details what is meant by personal information, specifically for consumers. The second part focuses on common threats faced people and businesses as well as how they can exhibit themselves. The third and final part describes some basic defense practices that you can easily put in place as well as what you should do after you have found a virus or been hacked.

Social: This section focuses on the environmental impacts of cybersecurity, privacy on the internet and commonly used tactics to violate it, and privacy on social media.

Business: This section details the importance of network security and some approaches to it, social engineering as well as how it works and what businesses can do to prevent it, and how hackers use psychology to exploit victims and how businesses can approach it.

Current events: This section discusses some general current threats and how to resolve them, major cyber security incidents, and finally, AI and the risks it poses to privacy.

Visual Data: This page focuses on the visualization of data and how it relates to cybersecurity.

Bios: This page gives information on who we are and what our assigned sections were.

References: This final page lists the references used for each of our sections as well as brief explanations of what they are about.