Friday, November 14, 2014

Blog Analysis and Summary - The Final Chapter

The past 12 weeks has been a wonderful learning experience. I felt like I knew a bit about security, but I certainly did not know the management aspect of it. This blog was my way to bring the business lingo down to Earth on a level most of us could understand and relate to.

Much of the information I found was scattered across the Internet. I found articles on CNET, The Washington Post, ABC News, and Business Week. I really wanted to gather as much information on the topics as possible and not utilize the same resources over and over again. There was a lot of good information I garnered from LifeHacker. The information has been out there, I just never knew what to look for. Having this blog and the topics week-to-week helped keep me focused.

I started my blog by looking at personal security. In the corporate world, securing data is a major part of doing business today. It is no different in our personal lives. We need to make sure we are taking the appropriate precautions to ensure we protect ourselves, just as we would do as managers within a corporation.

Next, I looked at liability and security. It is good to know that we have some form of protection if our data is compromised. On the personal level, this could be with credit monitoring services and such. On the corporate level, liability can be deflected to other agencies, if services are contracted and the other agency is liable via the contract.

Over the next few weeks, I took a look at life and how it related to security awareness, risk management, and the costs associated with protecting valuable assets. Just as a corporation must have security policies in place and evaluate risk, we need to do that in our own lives too. We need to consider the costs associated with decisions. Perhaps a child downloads a program which installs a virus and wreaks havoc on your home computer. This same type of behavior can happen in the business world too!

Lastly, I looked into securing wireless networks. In the business world, leaving networks unsecured is the easiest way to lose valuable information. The same hold true in your own home. Understanding the need to secure networks is critical for protecting data from being compromised. We all have some degree of information that, if stolen from someone on the outside, could be detrimental to our own personal lives. Businesses are no different.

As you can see, I used this term to relate the business ideas to those of my personal life. It will be some time before I am able to utilize the information security principles we learned, so relating them to something I am doing now helped clarify most of the topics. I am hopeful that, by bringing these concepts down to Earth, I will remember the valuable information in this class. Hopefully it will help someone else who is new to the concepts of information security! It sure helped me!

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