As I look back on past entries, I see that I have failed to limit the focus of my blog on one particular area. Rather, my goal was to discuss current events as they pertain to the information security world. One week I posted some information on why it is important to secure your home network and how this can be done. For this, and the majority of my other blogs, an in depth IT knowledge was not required. I intended to keep it light on the technical side, and focus more on providing valuable information to the common everyday user.
I wrote about things that affected me personally, such as the Sony Online Entertainment Network hack that denied service to many users for several days. This then prompted me to present some information on the hacker group Anonymous. The following week I discussed the penalties currently in place for convicted cyber criminals. My intention was for my blog to follow a path of learning with the topics discussed building upon the prior week’s content.
Basically I chose topics that I have no previous knowledge about, and was curious to know more. The creation of this blog provided me with the opportunity to research these issues and topic and report my findings to my faithful followers… or Ron. I enjoyed doing it, and learned a lot in the process.
Whether or not this information would be useful to IS professionals is hard to say. I am but only a beginner in the field and have yet to steer my career into a position focused solely on the IS/IA. I assumed that Ron likely didn’t learn anything from blog, and many experienced professionals would likely not derive a lot of new content from my presented findings. However, I like to entertain the idea that my fellow students would enjoy the subject matter. Either way thanks for keeping up with my blog.
Topics discussed:
Router encryption
Securing your personal network
Anonymous group – hacking
Sony hacked
Cyber crime laws
Government failures in keeping current with government standards
CISSP certification
Smartphone vulnerabilities
…just to name a few.
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