03/01/2014 - 09/10/2014 AIMs
- To analyse my skills and achieve my desired skill level for each skill
- To gather at a minimum 20 pieces of literature for the lit review
- To analyse and gather all resources and make plans for any resources that aren't yet available
- Plan for worst case scenario
- Narrow down my initial ideas from 5 to 2
AIMs for 04/02/2014
- To reach the desired level of 2 or more of my skills (starting with the lowest current level)
- Create a plan for the Lit review
- Start looking at literature, read a minimum of 10 pieces
Interview Techniques
I spent half of today looking into popular interview techniques. The reason i did this is because i will need to conduct several interviews for my project, to gather data for me to analyse, and i felt that with my current knowledge of how to conduct interviews i wouldn't have been able to conduct one than ran as smoothly as I would have liked.
The techniques I read up on taught me:
- How to plan an efficient interview
- How to properly phrase questions
- How to react to questions
- How to note down the interviewees reply
- How to start and end an interview
- How to order questions so they flow
- And most importantly what not to do
Because of what i've learnt today tomorrow i will be planning a list of questions for a variety of interviews that i hope will take place within the next few weeks.
Mobile Vulnerabilities and Mobile Malware
The other half of today was spent reading up on and investigating Mobile application security. The reading involved looking at common mobile vulnerabilities and looking briefly into different forms of Mobile malware and they different from malware that infects laptops and desktops.
A lot of today was spent reading up and getting known with this particular area, and theres a lot of information i've learnt about common mobile vulnerabilities and how they work, tools that are used to exploit these vulnerabilities, but there is still so much more for me to learn. One of my weaknesses is i'm not very good at taking in information i've read. So as there is still so much more to learn, which is the nitty gritty/technical part i will be using a much more hands on approach.
This approach involves me downloading and exploring a host of OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) tools that will allow me to run these various exploits to really learn how they work and how to protect against them.
Analysis of Todays Aims
Todays Skill research and level increase went extremely well, I was happy with the outcome and now feel comfortable conducting an interview, but will still need to do more research till i feel extremely happy with conducting an interview. The Mobile application security research was extremely interesting and i learnt a lot about an unknown area to me. A lot of the research was extremely helpful and could be used towards my lit review.
Unfortunately i was unable to create a plan for my lit review which will have to be complete within the next two days. I will have to try harder to complete all of my targets.
AIMS for 05/02/2014 & 06/02/2014
- Explore OWASP tools to learn more about mobile security
- Research and Explore two more skills from the list in the previous blog
- Plan out interviews for various job roles
- Create lit review plan
- Complete various forms on MYBU
Thank you very much for reading!! Stayed tune for more. You Stay Classy Bournemouth.
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