Report: Under-Resourced People Face Higher-Than-Average Cyber Risks

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https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/04/report-under-resourced-people-face-higher-average-cyber-risks/156411/

By Brandi Vincent
Staff Correspondent
NextGov
April 18, 2019

Mobile devices and the internet are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in 
American society, offering more connectivity than ever before.

But as those technologies grow more prevalent, researchers say a new divide is 
emerging between people who can identify and mitigate possible cybersecurity 
threats and those who cannot.

‘Underserved’ people—including foreign language speakers, senior citizens, and 
low-income residents—face “higher-than-average risks” of falling victim to 
cyber attacks compared to their better-served counterparts, according to a 
report released this week by the University of California, Berkeley Center for 
Long-Term Cybersecurity.

“This cybersecurity gap is a new ‘digital divide’ that needs to be 
addressed—with urgency—by the public and private sectors alike,” wrote Ahmad 
Sultan, who led the study. “The report is intended to help city leaders 
understand how they could better understand this issue in their own cities, and 
how they might forge public-private partnerships to address cybersecurity 
concerns at the system level.”

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