Cybersecurity Interviews

Ruoxi Peng, an international student, chose Honesty, Dignity, Trust, Helpful, Useful, and User-Friendly. Let’s find out a little more about Ruoxi's thoughts on cybersecurity. 

...And now, Ruoxi in his own words: 

We need to have a solid foundation for how to handle ourselves in online spaces. Any hacker online can take advantage of us when we aren't paying attention and a lot of this comes down to deception. Just look at what we see on social media. More and more people have a platform to voice their opinions, which includes their opinions of the truth, so it’s hard to sift through it all. We're innundated. That is why cybersecurity efforts need to be rooted in Honesty and Dignity at their core to help us understand and interact with the world around us within a digital space. 

With all that we have going on -- whether it’s in terms of our health, larger social tensions, like race or our politics -- we are seeing the rapid destabilization falsehood can create. We even see the debate of truth itself produce a massive ripple effect. It could be foreign or domestic, intentional or unintentional, but the point is there needs to be the underlying level of respect for and responsibility to the truth to build and sustain Trust in our local, national and global communities. So when we talk about cybersecurity, it’s not just looking out for a phishing scam but opening our eyes and always being wary of where and how we get our information. 

To combat this, we need Helpful information online and in-person, whenever possible, to improve how we process the information that comes across our screens. We must develop a keen eye to evaluate them for the potential risk they impose. Being helpful is also about reminding us that being cybersafe is active, not reactive. One way we could do this is by communicating in more ways than just email, maybe delivering messages through text, WeChat and other such tools. 

Offering Useful and User-Friendly solutions is importnat in elevating a positive cybersecure mindset and make it easy to think that way. As an international student, the 2-step login certainly represented a very positive change in how the university is looking out for us. Using it is incredibly easy and user-friendly; it's downright routine now.  

In the end, we have so much information online that we can’t afford to brush off these kinds of solutions as a pain because they really do help us continue excelling in our daily lives online.

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