In my Cyber 100 class I have learned many important things about my career throughout the various assignments and videos. I would say one of the more important things that I have learned about in this course is about the various types of malware and security vulnerabilities discussed in the ZyBook. Not only was it interesting, but it will also be very useful information in the future.
Knowing about security vulnerabilities and the various types of malware will be very important to know for my future career. I learned about the various types of malware including worms, viruses and trojans. Not only did I learn about various types of malware, but also about various types of cyber attacks including DoS attacks where a router/server is flooded with packets in order to slow it down or disable it.
While I learned about the types of attacks and the types of malware, I also learned of some useful defenses to use against these threats. One of these defenses is a firewall and works by filtering network traffic to only allow certain things in and out. Another type of defense I learned about was antivirus software and how it can help to detect and delete malware. Overall it was very interesting information and will be very useful to me in the future.
