Guest Appearance: Chase Norlin

Contrary to what it feels like today, there was actually a time before the Internet. With beginnings in the 1960s, users truly began to recognize the Internet for its communication benefits in the 1970s, when email was invented. However, with advances in the Internet came advances in malicious technology.

The first virus was released in the 1980s. A virus, in laymen’s terms, is a self-replicating program that can cause damage to the data and files stored on a computer. Where these viruses were initially meant to be crimes more comparable with vandalism, hackers are now enacting large-scale cybercrime capable of taking down governments.

In fact, cybercrime evolves as society changes. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, for example, phishing email schemes have risen, with malicious actors posing as staff members from the World Health Organization in order to gain access to the people whose files they are trying to manipulate. Attacks like this rose more than 350% last year alone.

That’s where Chase Norlin from Transmosis comes in. Not only does he work in the cybersecurity industry himself, but he is known for developing others to assist in this mission in his field.