Monday, August 5, 2013

A Retrospective Look...


Well, I’d have to say that I enjoyed blogging this semester.  It is nice to sit down and read current events related to cyber security.  It looks like I started off blogging about more broad topics (foreign hackers) then narrowed it down and started talking about a security incident that happened in an elementary school.  After that it seems I found articles that pertained to home security..mostly because most articles I found centered around home security… as NSA is monitoring us more closely now.  I did throw in a couple random articles about security incidents at AT&T (this one probably interested me because I have AT&T).  The other random one was facebook..I have facebook as well, and I was curious what security leak happened that I was  not aware about.  I also threw in an article not related to cyber security..that was the supermoon article.  I think I liked this article because one of the airmen at work was talking about the supermoon.
The only source I used was CNET.  When I first read the assignment I thought we were only suppose to pick one source, so when I was looking through all the sources I wanted to pick a source that had a multitude of topics I could write on.  CNET seemed to be a good option as it had tons of up-to-date cyber security articles.
I think this type of blog would be very useful for a security professional.  I think a blog is great to keep all of your thoughts in one place.  That way you can go back and see what you wrote a week or a month ago.  It would help a security professional be an organized thinker.
If I was the next set of students, I definitely would want to keep the blog idea open and have them write in it.  I think it was great, and a great way for me to learn about blogging as I never have blogged before.  I do think that they should check out more sites than just one.  I wish I would have checked more out and wrote from a bunch of different sources.  I also think that the blog idea is great because we are required to have a blog post each semester for our masters and I think I can just add to this one! J