Friday, February 17, 2017

Help me help the Cyber Security SIG

An open letter from the Sun City Cyber Security SIG

 Securing information in the current environment of the Internet is difficult. Daily non-fake news accounts indicate how difficult the tasks can be.  Large corporations, security specialists, national security agencies, and many other have had published compromises of their information and/or security. Many other non-published security incidents have occurred.
 In my training most courses take 40-60 hours of classroom sessions, many hours of lab exercises and practical testing. The courses are narrow in scope so many such courses to base knowledge to tackle the current security scope.
 The Sun City Windows SIG leader has the same issues I face with the Cyber Security SIG. How to convey the topics to those with interest at a level for all? His advice was to understand what you can, ask questions on the rest, and research what you need. I did not get “it” the first time, nor the second, or third. Gaining knowledge in a very rapidly changing environment requires effort.  Most of that effort is my part. I will take more time on laying basic concepts before moving to the more complex material. The sessions of the Cyber Security SIG thus far have been designed to bring important concepts to your attention to make your cyber interactions safer as rapidly as practical.
 Your part is to keep me more informative and less technical. Do this be asking the questions that most everyone else if thinking. We are a small group, we can share.
 Thank you for your interest and attendance. Please use SCCCCyber@gmail.com to enhance your Cyber Security SIG experience.


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