About This Lesson
In our Cyberspace and Cybersecurity module students will explore the origins of the internet and the challenges that will define its future.
In this module, you will
- discover how people use the internet today, and how that usage differs based on who and where they are;
- tour the physical building blocks that make the virtual world possible;
- explore the evolution of the internet from a narrow research tool to a global, commercial platform, and discover how its growth makes regulation and enforcement challenging;
- learn how countries’ approaches to governing cyberspace differ, and how these competing ideas could lead to a “splinternet”;
- examine how the global network of data storage puts your personal data at risk, and find out how recent measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation help data privacy; and
- learn about Stuxnet, the first cyber attack to result in physical damage, and its implications for the future of cyber threats and defenses.
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