Cyber security involves protecting networks, computers, programs and data from unauthorized access and damage. The National Cyber Security Awareness campaign promotes stopping to consider risks, thinking about how online actions can impact safety, and enjoying the internet with confidence by taking safety steps. Cyber threats to organizations like TVA can come from cyber terrorism, hacktivism, and scam artists seeking to steal valuable information or make political statements.

1. Day 1 Quiz Study Slides

2.  Cyber Security is the body of technologies,
processes, and practices designed to
protect networks, computers, programs,
and data from attack, damage, or
unauthorized access

3.  National Cyber Security Awareness campaign
(stop.think.connect)
 Stop
• Before using the internet consider the risks and learn to
spot potential problems
 Think
• Take a moment to be certain the path ahead is clear.
Consider how your actions online could impact your safety,
or your family’s
 Connect
• Enjoy the Internet with greater confidence, knowing you’ve
taken the right steps to safeguard yourself and your
computer.

4.  Anybody can be a threat to TVA’s
computer security. Typically, these threats
lie in three categories:
 Cyber Terrorism
 Hacktivism
 Scam Artists

5.  Cyber Terrorism: The use of internet based
attacks in terrorist activities
 Recent news of Chinese Terrorists
suspected of hacking US government and
business facilities

6.  Hacktivism: The use of computers and computer
networks to promote political ends, chiefly free
speech, human rights, and information ethics.
 Anonymous
• Freedom fighters of the internet (digital robin
hood)
• Known for hacking many government websites
• Janurary 25, 2013 Anonymous hacked the
United States Commision website

7.  Scam Artists can be anyone from a loosely
organized group to one of your fellow
employees.
 Scams typically intend to steal valuable
information related to identification such as:
social security numbers, credit card numbers,
and passwords.

8.  So why does TVA need to be worried?
 TVA controls many valuable resources and
the power to the majority of the Tennessee
Valley. Reasons to target TVA include:
• Making a political statement
• Terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities
• Steal employee information