Looking back into my blog posts…

       During the initial weeks, I decided to write about the data breaches and security concerns faced by the major retailers and health care service providers. I could find a lot of information in internet related with data breaches as there are still many victims impacted by intentional or unintentional release of secured information to an untrusted environment. I felt it is important for home owners to ensure their home network is secured enough and know some techniques to keep home network secured, hence, I wrote a post on securing home network which I think can be informative for the readers. I also tried my best effort to describe in detail on what causes the online information security issue and what security measures can be taken to protect your online information.

  I tried not to limit myself to certain items and wanted to hit many areas concerning information security in my blog covering variety of topics.  Hence, starting the fifth week of the course, I decided to write on the topic from the reading list for that week. While going through the assigned chapter from the text and researching online on the similar topic, I learned some serious topics within information security such as importance of incident response plans, things to consider while developing info security policy, promoting security awareness and so on. While writing the blog posts on these topics, I always felt as a writer I had a big responsibility to present true facts, current and correct information to the readers. 

       I used the text book for this course (CIS 608) as the main source for my blog posts. I found techtarget.com as my frequent online source and really appreciate the definitions on technical terms posted by Margaret Rouse on this website. Beside these, I also used variety of sources for each week and have mentioned those sources in the reference section of each post. I think these types of blog can be very useful to an information security professional as internet is full of information and in my opinion; me and my classmates have contributed to the online world by adding some valuable information via these blogs. We need to make sure that we are adding the correct information in the blog and if we have used others’ words, make sure we give them credit by using correct citation or links to the websites we used as the source of information.