Hi Everyone,
I like to kick start a new blog to discuss and share my thoughts/realisation over "Technology, Risks and Controls". I have to admit that the idea to blog my thoughts and perspective was mainly driven by the misunderstood relationship of Risks and Controls with Technology. I am a technology audit with engineering background on the systems. I would kickstart an introduction about myself and the training background not to flash my achievements but to help you, as a reader understand my perspective better.
Feel free to drop me comments if you do not agree but please respect my post as well and no hated comments please.
So, ahem, before I was a technology trained person, I was a noob, piece of white paper who knows nothing about computer. At that point in time, I thought having a computer at home was cool. Back in my school days, computers were not exactly network and having a 288000 bps modem was cool. You get to hear the funny machine noises that were results of handshake authentication with the server before granted access to the internet. I remembered in those days, yahoo, netscape and alta vista were all cool sites. I didn't have google or baidu or any of the powerful site engines to seek info. Information were made available to us through text and simple gif images. Forum was a hype then and I spent a great deal of time in forums.
As technology progress, network speed improve and I upgraded my modem from 14400bps to 56k modem. ISDN was also launched then but pricey. Being a student and child of a low income family Singapore cant afford ISDN lines. Anyhow, HD videos did not exist in mainstream then. My computer skills were picked up through interactions with friends and defense against virus. DOS based virus or malware alike executable that can only be removed via specific DOS commands or AV programs stored in 5inch diskettes. I remembered handling autoexec.bat and config.sys as well as other DOS level programs while fixing computers for neighbours or classmates.
My first computer was a 486 DX33 system as I recalled. But it was built on a taiwanese mainboard using an intel compatible chip, however the shop owner charged it like a HP/IBM. I was a noob, remember? So for obvious reasons, I was taken advantage of and later learned that the introducer were in cahoots with the shop owner. That gave me a strong driver to learn what i could in computer to prevent another fraud event. Gradually my exploration of computer kickstart to server space and subsequently network, security devices, and much more. I get excited whenever new chipset was introduced and I ensure i read the chipset features thoroughly and understand the mechanism behind them.
These gave me good background and set up my career for technology audit.
I like to kick start a new blog to discuss and share my thoughts/realisation over "Technology, Risks and Controls". I have to admit that the idea to blog my thoughts and perspective was mainly driven by the misunderstood relationship of Risks and Controls with Technology. I am a technology audit with engineering background on the systems. I would kickstart an introduction about myself and the training background not to flash my achievements but to help you, as a reader understand my perspective better.
Feel free to drop me comments if you do not agree but please respect my post as well and no hated comments please.
So, ahem, before I was a technology trained person, I was a noob, piece of white paper who knows nothing about computer. At that point in time, I thought having a computer at home was cool. Back in my school days, computers were not exactly network and having a 288000 bps modem was cool. You get to hear the funny machine noises that were results of handshake authentication with the server before granted access to the internet. I remembered in those days, yahoo, netscape and alta vista were all cool sites. I didn't have google or baidu or any of the powerful site engines to seek info. Information were made available to us through text and simple gif images. Forum was a hype then and I spent a great deal of time in forums.
As technology progress, network speed improve and I upgraded my modem from 14400bps to 56k modem. ISDN was also launched then but pricey. Being a student and child of a low income family Singapore cant afford ISDN lines. Anyhow, HD videos did not exist in mainstream then. My computer skills were picked up through interactions with friends and defense against virus. DOS based virus or malware alike executable that can only be removed via specific DOS commands or AV programs stored in 5inch diskettes. I remembered handling autoexec.bat and config.sys as well as other DOS level programs while fixing computers for neighbours or classmates.
My first computer was a 486 DX33 system as I recalled. But it was built on a taiwanese mainboard using an intel compatible chip, however the shop owner charged it like a HP/IBM. I was a noob, remember? So for obvious reasons, I was taken advantage of and later learned that the introducer were in cahoots with the shop owner. That gave me a strong driver to learn what i could in computer to prevent another fraud event. Gradually my exploration of computer kickstart to server space and subsequently network, security devices, and much more. I get excited whenever new chipset was introduced and I ensure i read the chipset features thoroughly and understand the mechanism behind them.
These gave me good background and set up my career for technology audit.
