Derek Talbott Blog

Blogging this week about chapters 19–21 helped me understand the essential topics of incident response, disaster recovery, and post-incident analysis. I found it rewarding to transform these security concepts into practical examples from real-world security operations instead of simply repeating the text. The exercise reinforced my knowledge while helping me understand how these processes operate in my current workplace. The main difficulty during this assignment involved transforming extensive, detailed information into brief yet substantial content. The exercise directly matches my current work requirements because it requires me to explain security concepts to various groups of people. I plan to maintain my blogging practice after the class ends because it will serve as a tool for professional knowledge sharing and process documentation, as well as personal branding. The ability to simplify complex technical information makes me more valuable to employers because it demonstrates...

Throughout this Cloud Computing and Governance course, blogging gave me a chance to reflect on what I was learning from our reading and being able to connect it to real-world applications, especially some within my own job. While it sometimes took a little extra effort to think of unique perspectives for each week's topic, the process definitely helped reinforce my understanding of everything.  This skill is definitely useful in my current role, as the ability to clearly explain complex ideas is valuable in both technical and non-technical settings. I can see myself continuing to blog professionally in the future, whether for knowledge sharing, documentation, or company branding. For an employer, having someone who can communicate expertise in an approachable way adds value, not just as a technical resource but also as a voice that can represent the company’s thought leadership in the industry.  Thank you for taking the time and learning through this course with me. Until next...

This  week's reading of  Chapters 15–18 presents real-world cybersecurity execution, focusing on incident response and recovery, as well as  communication. The structured incident response planning approach stood out to me as the most important lesson from this week's material. A documented and practiced security plan reduces both the chaos of a security breach and the time needed for recovery and damage reduction. The chapters demonstrated that preparedness, together with coordinated efforts and clearly defined responsibilities, maintains equal importance to the tools and technology used for threat investigation. The preservation of evidence, together with lessons learned activities, were a crucial element in post-incident procedures. The process of cybersecurity maturity requires organizations to extend their incident response beyond immediate threat resolution through proper documentation and reporting. The chapters demonstrated how organizations can improve their defe...

Hello again, welcome to Week 9. The material from this week demonstrated that cloud performance and disaster planning require an active strategic approach for success. The main lesson I learned was how dashboards, logs, and alerts function together to provide complete visibility into cloud health. AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor tools serve beyond metric reporting because they enable automated responses, which both save time and minimize human mistakes. The concept of configuring alarms to trigger both technical threshold alerts and cost-saving actions, such as auto-scaling or unused resource shutdowns caught my attention. The main emphasis of the lesson focused on business continuity and disaster recovery. The presentation explained RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) concepts through straightforward definitions. The recovery models presented as cold and hot standby provided an effective method to understand the relationship between cost and recovery spee...