I have been working in the Information Security (InfoSec) space for 10 years now covering a wide range of InfoSec positions. During that time I have seen this industry change in a number of ways, and I have met a lot of awesome people in this industry. So what really is InfoSec? Is this a battle between good and evil? Is it a money game? Is electronic data the only focus, or is physical data as important? Will you ever achieve absolute security? Information Security is a very complex journey, but let’s back up and take a very simple, basic approach to this and start our journey as if this is the first time we ever heard of InfoSec
Everyone in the tech industry seems to use the search engines to figure out answers to certain questions. If you don’t remember the specific syntax to do something you can just google it. Well, let’s start this off with a google search to see if this will help us out. If you do a simple google search and ask “what is infosec” you get this back: procedures or measures used to protect electronic data from unauthorized access or use. If you do another google search for “what is information security” you get this: the state of being protected against the unauthorized use of information, especially electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this. Well, we can deduce that InfoSec is the practice of protecting your data. That sounds pretty easy, but let’s look at what data is.
Next time we will jump into what is data and how do we protect it. Feel free to chime in and let me know what you think. Thank you ~torn