Michael Coppola Featured in Article on How to Protect Criminal Justice Information Online

In the article, Coppola explains that computer users today face a wide variety of security threats, ranging from spyware to click bait and breaches. These threats can pose severe problems for the average computer user, but they can especially be problematic for parties who store criminal justice information. Fortunately, these parties can mitigate these threats through appropriate password creation and advanced authentication, according to Coppola.

According to the article, advanced authentication involves much more than simply using user names and passwords to access confidential information. Instead, it also involves using something that a user has and something that he or she knows to access this information from his or her chosen device. Coppola emphasizes in the article that this higher level of authentication is crucial given that cybercrimes and identify theft are becoming increasingly common. As a result, all officers at a criminal justice agency need to be able to adapt to advanced authentication.

The article also provides a rundown on the importance of requiring complex passwords to access privileged information. According to Coppola, some hacking applications are designed to develop various of users’ personal data—for instance, their home addresses, birthdates, and names—to try to determine these users’ passwords. In addition, some spyware actually develops algorithms for users’ key tapping behaviors in an effort to decipher the users’ passwords.

To combat these activities, users should ideally create passwords featuring words that cannot be found in a dictionary. In addition, criminal justice agencies should utilize password expiration policies to force their workers to constantly change their passwords. Using personal identification numbers may also be helpful for securing criminal justice information in today’s threat-filled cyberworld, according to Michael Coppola in the article.

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