Week 2 Reflection - Introduction to Information Security

As this is my first journal reflection entry i am still coming to grips with what is fully required out of this exercise, so i will just learn as i go.
As this weeks chapter was an Introduction to Information Security overall it was a reasonably easy first chapter to come to grips with the concepts discussed throughout.

MAIN THINGS I LEARNT-
Whilst reading this chapter i have learnt several new concepts and ideas that i did not know or not fully understand. I have learnt about the history of Information Security dating back to the 1960's. I have learnt that the beginning of information security began after the first mainframes were developed. This produced the need for information on these mainframes needed some form of protection. I have also discovered the meaning of several terms including security, information, information security, data ownership, data custodian and data users. From studying this chapter i have a greater understanding of a lot more of the components if both information and security. From completing the online quiz i learnt the majority of what i learnt out of this topic, i found it a very useful exercise to complete.

WHAT I FOUND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND-
As i previously said this chapter was an introduction to information security the overall concepts and issues discussed are really quite simple to understand. In terms of anything i found difficult to understand nothing really was that in depth that it was mind boggling. The only thing i do not fully understand is The Systems Development Life Cycle and The Waterfall Methodology. After reading it over a couple of times and thinking about it, it became clearer and easier to understand.

WHAT INTERESTS ME-
Overall the topic was fairly interesting to me as i enrolled in this course to learn more about information security. As the first chapter was an overview of this topic it lived up to my expectations about what i intended to learn about. So the concepts or ideas which i found interesting were some elements relating to both information and security. The history of information security was probably the most interesting aspect of the chapter as i now know the origin of the concept of information security. The weekly quiz was probably the best part of the work for the week and the most useful activity i completed as it made me go and hunt for the answers through the slide presentation.

WHAT DOES NOT INTEREST ME-
As i am not the most technically savy person when it comes to computers anything which is too in depth about computers does not really interest me. As there was nothing really like this in this chapter, none of the topics were not some what interesting to me.