Epilogue

Each of my posts over the last several weeks had a common theme and generally discussed the Pentagon and its declaration of Cyber War in the Ethernet.  Most of the information posted came from new media such as ABCNews.com or FoxNews.com.  I am somewhat of a news junkie in that I watch a lot of news and read six or seven newspapers a day.  I like the variety of story presentations by each of the news media.  I also read news magazines, Time, Newsweek, US News. 

The state of information security is indeterminate for me at this time.  I am relatively new in the information security industry and I am very surprised as to how vulnerable we all are.  I will tell you that I personally became more aware of the issues through the research and blogging process.  However, for me, at this time, to express an opinion of the state of information security would be biased towards my relative ignorance and would most likely not have a proper perspective. 

As far as trends are concerned, nine weeks is not a long enough period to identify or develop a trend.  For subjects such as computer security, trends occur over months or years.  Trends were apparent in the various annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Reports.

As far as lessons learned, I have one – lock it up.  If you don’t want it stolen, used, or abused, secure it, whether it be your bicycle or data on your computer, get aware, do an inventory, learn how it can be compromised, and take the necessary actions to prevent the loss.