Cisco is a business that makes their money from having switches, routers, and architecture of networking that allows for easy and efficient ways to secure internal and external networks. IBM is a company that designs technology and standards for technology in order to bolster security for users trying to use the electronic products. Check Point is a software company that specializes in endpoint security by introducing different usage of firewalls in those endpoints. RSA is a company that focuses on bolstering the security of data going across the network through developing good encryption schemes. Tenable is a cybersecurity company that specializes in vulnerability scanning, and the use of Nessus to do so.
My perspective on the experience of entrepreneurship is overall positive on both helping with my confidence issue, and my understanding of what it means to be an entrepreneur. Originally, I thought that to be an entrepreneur, I had to create a business that would reach the level of Microsoft or Apple, but an entrepreneur isn’t really just a title, it is a mindset. To actively create new products/services to benefit the field I am in, is the essence of growing to be irreplaceable. What separates the value of an entrepreneur from the rest of the working class, is the ability to change and adapt in order to create the most optimal way to succeed in the field they are in.
This entrepreneurial course has prepared me to be patient with results, adaptive with failure, and self-actual with what I want from a job, and what I can bring to the workplace I am applying to. Throughout the course, I learned that often times, the way to get products/services out into the market is the plan on how it will impact society and determine through that who would buy it. With the certain markets constantly changing, it is important to understand how to adapt to the market and create another business plan on how to make the product/service desired by those who feel it will fill the need/want they have. Even with all the marketing, investments, and trials, these businesses may fail, and in order to grow as an entrepreneur, you have to learn to accept and learn to make future products/services successful.
There really isn’t any other suggestions I would like to see implemented in this course. This course was on a strict 7-week schedule, where the basics on entrepreneurship were being taught via video lectures, and the assignments where due on a consistent basis. With this sort of schedule, it gave the fast pace feel of how a business will be ran and gave resources to look at to explain what it meant to be an entrepreneur.
Next for me following this course is my last course of Old Dominion University in the fall. I am looking to apply to a job in my major in July and start off the semester with some experience in my belt. The last semester of courses, and the job experience, however, is all geared to help me pass my Comptia CySA certification in December of this year. While I am gearing up for that future, I will continue to try to improve my knowledge and skills in this field to become a candidate that will leave a mark on any interview, job, or business.