A Brief Look at Cybersecurity Issues Over Time
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Wayne Schepens, managing director at LaunchTech Communications, highlights the evolution of cybersecurity over the decades, emphasizing its critical role in national security and economic stability. From early hacking attempts in the 1970s to significant threats posed by viruses and internet worms in the following decades, the landscape of cyber threats has continuously evolved. Today's cybersecurity experts are tasked with combating advanced cyber-crime and protecting essential infrastructures while ensuring the safety of individuals.
A Brief Look at Cybersecurity Issues Over Time
- 1. A BRIEF LOOK AT CYBERSECURITY ISSUES OVER TIME Wayne Schepens
- 2. INTRODUCTION • At LaunchTech Communications in Baltimore, managing director Wayne Schepens and his team assist new and established companies in getting their messages in front of the public. Drawing on Wayne Schepens’ more than 20 years in the field of cybersecurity, the firm focuses on serving clients in the high- technology and security sectors. Cybersecurity has emerged over the current generation as one of the most important professions in the world. With cybersecurity acknowledged as vital to both national security and economic strength, its experts routinely work to counteract destabilizing efforts on the part of nation-states and independent actors. Security has been of concern to the computer industry since the first cumbersome ENIAC and UNIVAC machines debuted in the 1940s and ‘50s.
- 3. CYBERSECURITY ISSUES • Since then, the skills of hackers and virus-makers have increased exponentially. A simple “phreaking” operation in the early ‘70s used a toy whistle to produce the exact tone that would facilitate free telephone calls. In the 1980s, the widespread adoption of personal computers brought with it the possibility of infection from viruses such as the boot virus Brain, which in 1985 was the first to employ stealth technology. And the year 1988, when the Internet Worm infected 10 percent of all Internet-connected computers, saw the introduction of a new meaning for the word “hacker.” Today’s cybersecurity teams continue to seek innovative ways to provide protection against cyber-crime, insulate critical grid infrastructure from attacks, and increase the safety of individual citizens.