JTP's WGU MS CSIA Update Thread

[JTP]

Since Last Update,

I got moved within my organization to an awesome cybersecurity team. It was directly linked to my education (both bachelors and approaching masters) and my CISSP. Leadership approached me in January and asked if I wanted to join the team and I was officially moved by early February.

So like everyone, work and life got very busy and school took the back seat for most of my 6 month term.

****Back to School Stuff****

Secure Software Design C706 was the second class I had this semester. Like secure network design, it only consists of a final exam. I did well on the pretest and used it and the provided study guide to brush up on concepts before taking the final. Again, coming off of the CISSP in the last 6 months made this a pretty easy course to knock out in a couple days.

Security Policies, Standards, and Best Practices VLT2 is a miserable class. This is a dry subject and one of the lengthier courses for papers. Unfortunately the steps to success document provided by a couple of the course mentors overcomplicated a couple tasks. In previous classes these sorts of documents would help cut through some of the vagueness or provide a template to use. I had both task 1 and 2 sent back to me for revision and when I looked through the rubric I was usually way in the weeds describing something when all they wanted was a simple answer. By the third paper I would read the guidance from the mentors and reference it against the rubric an usually go with just answering the rubric as it was more simple. As dry and tedious as this course is I honestly have to say I have learned a lot, and already started applying some of it at work. Task 4 is currently in queue for grading and hopefully it goes through firs attempt or only needs minor revision because I have to be all done by June 30th when my semester ends.

then July 1 starts my last semester with Disaster Recovery Planning FXT2 and the Capstone.