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Welcome to my cybersecurity blog site, if you have visited before then welcome back! I know some of you may have read my last blog post about the credibility of blogs. Well if you didn’t, you missed out on some useful information regarding the credibility of blogs so definitely check it out. Similarly, this week I will be going over the credibility of trade publications and how they can be of value for researchers. I will be going over the details on two scholarly trade publications regarding cybersecurity from ProQuest Career and Technical Education Database. I specifically chose this database for my two examples since it has countless cybersecurity related trade publications that are credible with valuable content. As I mentioned on previously on my last blog, it is crucial in finding the best sources online to become knowledgeable and not waste your time on the internet. First, what is a database? A database is a wide-ranging collection of academic works, generally consisting of scholarly journals and articles. Several databases can generally be found in your university or high school library website. The Database resource I will be using is ProQuest, which is home to databases across several fields. Thousands of trade publications or journals can be found on databases. Trade journals or trade magazines are professional publications written for specific audiences that either work for a specific trade, and for people who have interest in that industry. Trade journals are not only informative, but are generally more engaging to read vs. other sources because they may come in a newspaper or magazine format. The first trade journal I will be going over is titled: AI Enters the Cyber Attack Realm. This trade journal is copyrighted and published by Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. The AFCEA for short, is a professional association that connects people, ideas and solutions for global security as mentioned in their website. The journal has one author, by the name of Jonathan Hobbs. The title pretty much sums up the purpose of this publication. Many of you know how Artificial Intelligence is taking over the technology world we live in today and has been helping so many industries in becoming efficient. Although AI has several benefits, the journal explains the dark side of AI and how important cybersecurity plays an important role behind AI’s potential negative effects. Today, some AI machines are more efficient than cyber criminals and have the capability of hacking into secure systems. If you want to read and learn more, I would recommend this journal for anyone interested in learning more about AI in a cybersecurity sense. The journal is of high value for researches as it on a database. It is important to note that most sources found on academic databases are the most credible because they most likely have been written by scholars or experts in that field. https://www.afcea.org/site The next trade publication or journal I will be going over is titled: Cybersecurity and the Industrial IoT, which is also from ProQuest Career and Technical Education Database. This trade journal was published by Informa and copyrighted from Penton Media Inc. This journal was written by Doug Chandler, who has over a thousand journals on ProQuest, all published by Informa. Informa is a leading business intelligence and academic publisher who operate in the knowledge and information economy. This journal in specific discusses the impact cybersecurity has on industrial control systems also known as ICS. A decade ago, I am sure most people would not have predicted that cyber crime would take place in the industrial market. Today, attacks and discoveries of vulnerabilities has become a major concern in some industries. ICS’s have developed substantially and now have embedded intelligence that retains confidential information about machine performance as mentioned in the abstract of this journal. Electrical distributors out of all face the most attacks and it has become a critical problem for the industry. If you are interested in learning about the advancement of technology in different industries and how cybersecurity plays a role, this trade journal is an excellent choice. As I mentioned earlier, Informa has over a thousand publications on technology related news and is a great resource for researchers.
Today, I went over two trade publications from ProQuest. These two sources serve as two scholarly and credible sources regarding cybersecurity news. Both sources were also published in 2018 so they are very relevant and appropriate if you are looking for current research. A quick recap and tip about scholarly sources and databases are that not all articles or journals could be considered as scholarly sources. Journals become scholarly through being published through scholars, and journal articles become scholarly through being written by a scholar. You can confirm that a journal or article is scholarly if it is found on an academic database site, because only scholarly sources are added to a database. Again, don’t forget to come back next week and check out my next cybersecurity related blog post. https://informa.com/
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AuthorPrince Patrick Jackson Clement was born on April 20th, 1997 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Prince is currently attending George Mason University and is doing his Masters in Digital Forensics and Cyber Analysis. Prince is currently working as an IT Support Analyst at MyEyeDr. His career aspiration after graduating college is working at Amazon as a Cloud Solutions Architect. Archives |