Landscape of Cybersecurity Threats and Forensic Inquiry

Cybersecurity threats are not isolated occurrences and must be recognized as global operations requiring collaborative measures to prepare cyber graduates and organizations personnel on the high impact of cybercrimes and the awareness, understanding, and obligation to secure, control, and protect the organizations vital data and information and sharing them on social media sites. Most of my colleagues in the academic world argue in support of the premises of exempting high school students from cybersecurity education. However, utmost academic populations, the one I subscribe to, support the implementation of cybersecurity training sessions across entire academic enterprises, including high school, college, and university educational programs. Collaborative cyber education beginning from high school, college, and university settings will control and eliminate the proliferation of cybersecurity attacks, cyber threats, identity theft, electronic fraud, rapid pace of cyber-attacks, and support job opportunities for aspirants against cybersecurity threats on innocent and vulnerable citizens across the globe.

Professor Joseph O. Esin, chief publishing editor of The Journal of Educational Research and Technology (JERT), holds a Bachelors of science in biology from Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri; a Masters of arts in religious studies, with emphasis on moral theology, from the Society of Jesus College of Divinity, Saint Louis, Missouri; and a Doctorate in computer Education and Technology from the United States International University, San Diego, California. The State of California awarded him a Lifetime Collegiate Instructors Credential in 1989, and in 1996, the United States Department of Justice approved and conferred on him the honor of Outstanding Professor of Research in recognition of his contributions to academic excellence. He met the selection criteria for inclusion in the 199293, 199495, 199697 and 20152016 editions of Whos Who in American Education for demonstration of achievement and outstanding academic leadership in computer information technology, thereby contributing significantly to the betterment of contemporary society. He is currently a professor of computer information systems at Jarvis Christian College (JCC), Hawkins, Texas, where his peers just elected him Vice President of JCC 2017-2018 Faculty Governance. In addition, he is a visiting professor of research at the University at Calabar, Nigeria; a research associate at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), and journal article contributor to Washington Center for Cybersecurity Research and Development (WCCRD).