Cyber security : Why Cybersecurity is Important by Dr.Romeo Farinacci
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I'm dr. Romeo fara nachi first name
Filipino last name Italian as you can
see I'm neither I have a lot of fun with
my name truly I love especially in
interviews I love when I sit down
waiting and someone comes out and they
ask for Romero fara nachi I love their
expression on their face when it's black
guy stands out it's awesome but I've met
a lot of people with names that just
don't define them and it's really cool
about that I met guys with women's names
women with guys names there are so many
names that are general new
gender-neutral you know Jackie and Bobby
and McKenzie and so and so forth I had a
resume come to me one time the name was
Jules Martinez I kid you not my
expectation was a short Spanish woman
when interviewer came to the conference
room kid you not I had to look up to the
six-foot white guy from New York strong
New York accent come to find out his
name is Julian he just goes by Jules but
it's interesting how a name can no
longer provide us an expectation of who
you are we can no longer and it is
accepted norm that we no longer judge
people by their name you can't it's not
possible let me look at that name and
that says so much that is not me and
it's crazy I love it it's a norm today
we no longer ask or question whether or
not you are who you say you are that's
kind of a danger especially with the
internet way the World Wide Web is going
where you can now be anonymous
we can hide ourselves we can use the
network and the Internet to become
anyone we want to become the danger in
that too is we put so much out there on
the networking sites that we actually
are living online and if the bad people
get ahold of this information they can
actually pervert what we are doing and
who we are and actually change our image
change what we're trying to represent
modify the truth
organizations are actually trying their
best to control this a lot of them do
that's how they market themselves they
show us exactly what they want us to see
so that we believe in them that we
believe and who they are and what
they're trying to promote we also need
to do the same thing we need to take
control of these networking sites and
understand how we can leverage them to
give the truth of who we are that's
where we are right now we need to make
sure that when we control this that we
control the network in the social sites
in such a way that we use it to define
us rather than the network defining us
for us why am I here today I'm here to
talk about control here talk about how
organizations and how we as individuals
can leverage control leverage
cybersecurity to allow us to do what we
need to do to feel safe comfortable to
allow our kids to use these devices I'm
not here to talk about or define
cybersecurity a lot of us already know
if we have an intelligent phone we're
already integrated in it I don't know if
you see what I did there I'm not here to
talk about how cybersecurity career
fields are on the rise how the skills
for cybersecurity professionals in high
demand no I'm not even here to talk
about how October has been declared
cybersecurity Awareness Month still
can't believe that cybersecurity has its
own month like man it's just weird but
I'm here to talk to you mothers who have
children using these devices co-workers
who see these pop-ups when they're
getting to a website and it's blocking
them and they feel like it's stopping
them from being productive talking to
nurses who manage patient data and not
necessarily knowing where that data is
going not really caring I'm here to talk
to the average person who deals and
conducts transactions online without a
full understanding of how to implement
and control what they're doing so that
we can take control cybersecurity
awareness is all about us taking control
and embracing a cybersecurity instead of
looking at it like it's a hindrance
I have a ten-year-old my boy right there
he did something for me that really just
woke me up several years ago I was
sitting on the couch I was playing on
the phone playing the game he came up
next to me and he was just watching he's
about 5 or 6 and he accidentally this
question did you download that game as I
answered him I kind of stuttered because
I had to step back he used the word
download at 5 or 6 years old not only is
he using the word he understands what it
means a word as far as I know did not
exist when I was growing up and now I
think about it it's taken me degrees to
understand how to use it and how to
manage it in the workplace and at home
and yet here he is at five years old who
gets it immediately our kids today are
learning about technology learning about
how to use these devices faster than we
can imagine
kind of scares me because as a parent
isn't it my job to protect them and yet
they're doing things with these devices
that we are kind of naive to let's talk
about parental controls will quick when
I was growing up it was easy lock the
door and the parents want to take it a
step further go to your room it was easy
nowadays can't do that not with the
iPhones or the devices they have
available to them their tablets today
kids want to beat in a room now y'all go
to my room play my games you know and
without knowing how to manage what
they're doing we're actually scaring
ourselves when we're sleeping at night I
do I know I do I have to understand what
he's doing where he's going when he
tells me that I saw this thing on
YouTube I'm like whoa what else did you
see on YouTube when they're on these
devices they actually have worldwide
reach which is beautiful it's great
we need the Internet we use it every day
to collaborate share to learn to teach
to shop to eat in some cases even to
define who we are but at the same
time there are malicious people out
there who have that same reach their
children in their rooms using this
tablet with somebody in their room
across the country using the same common
devices trying to influence your
children we need to understand
cybersecurity so that we can put the
right controls in place embrace
cybersecurity so we can stop these bad
guys from reaching our kids even at the
workplace a lot of us who are coworkers
and we were trying to do certain things
try to navigate the websites we get
these pop-ups and we're like ah I can't
do my job and I wanna today I want to
help change some of that that's my goal
is to change how we perceive it I want
to realize that we want this we meet
this especially at home we need to take
that at work and say the same thing
because parental controls at work is
what the CEO is doing he's putting
parental controls on his systems to make
sure that his company thrives we need to
understand when we see these things
happening that they're there for a
reason how many of you in here actually
conduct personal business at work don't
have to answer that I won't but some of
us actually there's an article actually
says that some of us prefer to do a lot
of these transactions at work than at
home because the environment at work is
more secure it just goes to show how
much we don't understand on how to
secure and manage these environments at
home and how we don't really appreciate
when they are at work we're like hey
it's good it's secure I can do what I
got to do but I can't do it at home
because I don't know what security is
but I know they do security is not just
about protecting lencha intellectual
property it's not just about keeping the
CEO out of prison it's not just about
ensuring quality elections are taking
place it's also about self-preservation
it's about securing your job they have
these boundaries in place these barriers
in place I like to call them to ensure
that you can do what you need to do that
you are as productive as you need to be
at work without worry of sending
something to the wrong place
I imagine as a nurse you're trying to
send patient data to this physician
who's going to do certain activities you
don't want to send that patient record
that patient data to the wrong place and
hopefully boundaries are put in place to
prevent that from happening those
parental controls are in place to
prevent that from happening I want to
change things up a little bit I want us
to think about something I want us to
consider what cybersecurity really can
do for us at home and how it really
secures us I want you guys to embrace
cybersecurity when I finish this talk
because it's about you and your identity
at the end of the day it's about your
image it's about the company's image and
the companies are already getting this
they know this but we don't we don't
know what it's doing to our kids to our
homes think about bullying 20 years ago
if my kid was getting bullied in school
I can change schools now we can't do
that because all the bullying is done
online they're sharing it they're
downloading at the recording it I 5
change schools guess what the
information follows so we have to
understand how this works and how we can
control what we put up there so that we
can control who we are control our kids
triple our families control us consider
this because I love how perception
really really weighs on people imagine
you're driving down the freeway and a
cop pulls up behind you
no lights he just behind you how do you
feel uncomfortable anxious worried now
imagine if you're being attacked if
someone is threatening you or your
family in your front yard and a cop
pulls up just happen to be driving
around the neighborhood how do you feel
din take ambulance for example rush-hour
traffic I'm trying to get home lights
flashing behind me now I got to pull
over now how do you feel
delayed annoyed what if it was a family
member in which the ambulance is trying
to get to you hope it gets there as fast
as it possibly can
perception is important there are things
known and there are things unknown and
in between are the doors of perception
adlet
understand and provide awareness to what
security is and we can remove or we can
control perception that we have so that
we can better prepare our kids and
prepare our companies for when we're
trying to implement certain things so
they understand why we're doing it we're
not doing it that slowed you down I like
this for Morgan Freeman this kid came up
with Napster and before that none of us
thought of content protection think
about the internet before the internet
none of us thought about protecting what
we put up there what we post on blogs
going tweet tweet what do we do how do
we do it think about that now we have
cyber security because of these
malicious actors out there trying to
pervert what we're trying to do trying
to bring us down and reduce our image to
what we are not trying to show I like to
take this one step further cyber
security is just like this internet
security we really got to embrace cops
but not cops police cops you know I like
this picture here this is awesome
I had a CEO several years ago who really
provided a very good perception on what
cyber security is and he used this image
he said imagine cyber security like
brakes on a car the brakes on the car
are not there to stop you
they're there to enable you to go faster
I'll blown away if you did not have
brakes on the car either a you wouldn't
drive or B you'd only go one mile an
hour because that's as fast as you can
take your left foot out to stop that
vehicle but now you have brakes you have
that comfort that security to know that
this will allow you to control your
vehicle brakes allow you control Wow
blow my mind it enables me to go faster
I love that
that's what cybersecurity is doing it
enables me to do my job without worry of
what could or could not go wrong
cybersecurity is on the rise there are
attackers out there trying to prevent us
from doing what we want to do yes it has
its own month - it's crazy
but we need to embrace what it's doing
and how we can take these controls into
our home educate our kids on what they
are doing and then when we're going to
work understand why these things are in
place that's important that's how we
keep our jobs cybersecurity increases
productivity I love that line and that's
one thing that I go everywhere
everywhere I go that's what I do I say
that I ensure that I'm a cybersecurity
guy i love cyber security I want
everybody here to love cybersecurity it
increases productivity it's to me it's
no different than those Jersey barriers
on our Highway it's there to make sure
that other people go on one way I'm
going another it's what it's there for
it's not there to stop me but it's there
to allow me to think about what I'm
doing if I get a pop-up if I get
something that says are you sure it
allows me to think about what I'm doing
striking the balance between employee
productivity and data security it's
pretty much with our job is that
security professionals that's our goal
our goal is not to stop you from going
to certain websites our goal is not to
stop you from interacting with
third-party vendors that are emails
can't get back and forth our job is to
do this strike that balance because
there are bad guys out there I love this
quote that's not me by the way knowledge
is going to make you stronger knowledge
is going to let you control your life
knowledge is going to give you the
wisdom to teach their children knowledge
is the thing that makes you smile in the
face of disaster I kid you not when I
think of cybersecurity I smile I do I'm
crazy a lot people think I'm crazy but
cybersecurity if you understand its
purpose understand its meaning and what
it's there for it allows us to succeed
it allows our companies to succeed it
allows our children to use these devices
and learn rather than being afraid
rather than you being afraid
I put parent controls all over the place
I kid you not my 10 year old has no idea
that I do he's able to do all the things
needs to do
and I know what's going on I know where
he's going
and he's still able to learn have fun
play games and I don't have fear I love
that if everyone in here and that's what
I want to leave you guys with if
everyone in here took cyber security for
real embraced it really understood its
meaning and then learned about it the
little things and it's very easy again
if you have a smartphone something that
you already have if everyone took it
seriously from the government down what
what our presidency looked like right
now thank you
Who is Dr . Romeo Farinacci
Many people view cybersecurity as a hindrance or obstruction to their productivity, or simply a tool to monitor and track their digital movements and invade their privacy. This presentation will try to shift this paradigm by exploring the significance cybersecurity has on our lives both at work and at home.
Dr. Roméo Farinacci is the Program Director for Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security in the Grand Canyon University College of Science Engineering and Technology (CSET). He brings over 18 years of experience including military service and employment in IT/Cyber operations and management, consulting, and education. His military service includes 11 years of Active and Reserve duty in the United States Air Force, in addition to three years serving in the Wyoming Air National Guard.
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