Information Technology Blog

     Security of any kind is critical for personal reasons and organizational reasons. If a person does not lock their doors at home when they leave for the day, they leave their home vulnerable. Other people who may want to cause harm or anyone looking to do anything bad can have access to that person's personal belongings. When you think of personal data, most people don’t really think about how what they do online can be taken and used against them. My guess for this reaction is that online data is not tangible; a person cannot physically hold that data, so they may think it doesn’t exist. The test explains that personal data can be described as PII (personally identifiable information). The book states that PII is any information that can be used to identify a person. (CompTIA, 2024) PII can be seen as a person's name, home address, phone number, SSN, Email, and bank account number. In the world of organizations, like regular people, they have data that can be taken a...

  The topic I chose to write about was education.        My choice is that technology will affect this specific industry the most. Education as an industry affects all of us; we all grow up going to school, as young adults we went to college, and as older adults we may have children in school. Education has already been affected tremendously and will change much more as we progress. The 2020 pandemic is an excellent example of what has happened to the industry already. The fact that everyone could not return to school and had to switch to online learning was a significant change. This alone has ripples in our day-to-day life; we already use the word zoom as a verb, and we all go to school online as we do this assignment. School is also where many of us get introduced to a lot of technology and how we use that tech now. In the future, AI will change this industry significantly. Education needs to be open to introducing AI to students and show them the abiliti...

       Well, learning about the two different commands, I have learned a lot from both commands, ping and traceroute. The ping command is used to communicate with a specific website or address to see if the computer and website are communicating. The ping command in troubleshooting can be used to see if a computer and a website or address communicate. In my three trials, I got no lost packets, meaning my laptop communicates perfectly fine with all the websites. The tracerouting command is used to communicate with the same websites, but it maps out all the routers it hits before getting to the website. It's a road map of all the routers hit by the website.                The difference in geographic locations makes a difference; if I traceroute a website hosted on a local server, it would take fewer hops to get the website to respond. Like the international websites, it took more hops to get to the loc...

       This assignment compares the uniqueness and similarities of Microsoft Office Suite programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Word creates digital documents that can be shared in different settings. Excel is excellent for creating spreadsheets where a person can analyze and manipulate data to get different results. PowerPoint is used to create presentations for different projects. All three programs have different functionalities and purposes and can be used in various scenarios. While all part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint serve different functions – word processing and document creation, data analysis and manipulation, and visual presentation, respectively – each program is yet similar in that it has different features for specific purposes.                 According to the textbook, a word processor is a computer program that helps you type up and forma...

       The app I chose to discuss is the YouTube mobile app. I chose this app because it is one of my favorite apps and has many options and ways to use it. YouTube started as a website that allowed people to upload videos, so it was a platform where people could sort and share videos. At this point, YouTube just celebrated 20 years of the first video being uploaded, “Me at the Zoo”, where one of the original website developers shared a small video of himself at the zoo. At this point, YouTube sorts through billions of videos. YouTube as a mobile app allows users to see different videos from education, music, podcasts, fitness, vlogs, shorts, etc. The app is straightforward; you can go ahead and select any video on the screen and start watching it. As a user, you can choose or search for videos and subscribe to channels that allow you to follow different creators to get a personal curation of other videos. The number of things you can do in the app is very well laid ...

     Well, starting this assignment, I was very interested in using Scratch. I started the week by messing around with the website without knowing much about how the system functions. I ran the program a couple of times without any action being executed. I wanted to get a taste of the website before starting the week's studies, get my feet wet, pre-say. Well, starting the week by reading chapter ten, I began to get a couple of clues on how the system of scratch worked and what errors I had committed. I wanted a simple program to run after completing my week with Scratch.                 First, this week’s reading taught me that programs must be organized and follow steps. The example the text gave us was paper, rock, scissors. If a program wanted to run a simple program like this, it needed to be organized from top to bottom, have a start and end point, and include actions in between. The text al...