From: Tim Boyer 

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:45:52 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>When you wrote "he's been interested in security" I am
*really* tempted to
>write sounds like guaranteed job security to me.
>
>As you say, the timing is good.
>
>My only concern is that there is potentially a very real difference between
>the security they teach you in school and the security that has to be
>considered in the real world.  It's one thing to understand the philosophy
>of security and its implications on systems development, infrastructure,
>etc., and the real world requirement of locking down servers so totally that
>nothing can be done and then only opening up the server the barest minimum
>to accomplish a given task.
>

His summer internship was at an, er, completely anonymous tire company at
which his father just happens to be IS director.  Setting up Snort, ACID,
logcheck, ipchains, a router firewall, etc.  Good experience for him; I get
a reasonably secure system.

>I think it might be time to hit Google to find some *large* companies near
>you, find out the names of some senior VPs and chat with them to find out
>what they are looking for in the managers they are hiring.
>
>

Good plan.  My sister just below that level at Nationwide...


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Tim Boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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