Week 11 & 12

Finally, after 12 weeks of tireless writing of learning logs now we are down to the last one. From calculating risk assessments, business continuity planning, setting up Intrusion Detection Systems, up to security awareness; it has been a long and worthwhile journey and it is quite sure that we’re going to miss our dear professor, Sir Justin, for the next four months I suppose. In this log, I would like to deeply acknowledge Sir Justin for everything he had taught us for the past 12 weeks and hopefully we are going to see him again in our future classes. Setting the drama aside, here are the things that we have learned for the last two weeks. Security awareness and training sounds very similar to any kind of awareness and training programs and one common objective they had is that they aim to disseminate information amongst the target population. Dengue awareness programs launched by the Department of Health has only one certain goal: and that is, to inform the Filipino people about what the disease is all about, where it can be contracted, how and why it is virulently spreading etc. The same thing goes with security awareness and training programs. This time, it aims the desired population of scope to be informed of the security risks, issues, solutions and countermeasures. In terms of designing training programs, there are three models which set the standards of implementation. The first model is the centralized program management model. Establishing a centralized program ensures that the lower levels have a high degree of similarity in operational objectives across all of its components. The next model is the partially decentralized program management model. The policy and strategy is centralized; but this time, implementation sis distributed, meaning, the lower levels are given the authority to properly delegate everything in the implementation part. The last one is the fully decentralized program management model. This time, only the policy is carried out from the central power down to its other organizational units. The strategy and implementation of the program is now the responsibility of the lower levels. By being decentralized, this helps the different units to have independent or autonomous status and varying programs which differ greatly from each other. Well, I guess that concludes everything from the first week down to the last. I hope Sir Justin finally gets the dream retirement he direly needed. LMAO just kidding. He won’t be gone for too long. One day, he’ll be back with some more action and guns blazing. Best of luck to Sir Justin and for his students in the security track. Hopefully we find ourselves a bit fortunate at the very least in the hands of the professor who will be handling us next term. Good luck and have fun, good game and well played.