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Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])
From: Jean-Denis Gorin <jdgorin () computer org>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:22:25 +0200
Hi Paul
From: Paul D. Robertson Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:34 PM
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Once again, I'd like to publicly state that if you want to see interesting threads on the list, you have to de-lurk and start some. If nothing else, it'd change the Pix/Interesting ratio...
So, I'll start a new one ;) Why am I now a long time lurker? Mainly because I have quit the infosec field! After 10 years in the infosec field, 5 years ago I decided to quit infosec and came back to infosys architecture, my original field.
From early 90's to begin of 00's [0], I lived the raise of firewalls and DMZs...
and their doom: the eBusiness application model where Internet application where only a front-end to internal infosys! In those years, I concluded that there was no way to achieve a good security awareness because people (IT people or users [1]) didn't (or didn't want to) have a global view of IT or infosys. And the marketing buzz words of that time were enought to convince people to stay singleminded (and buy a 'lucky stone' firewall to protect themselves). So, my question is: among all of you, old timer firewall wizards, how many stay focused to infosec (and had kept a global view [2] of infosys) ? For them willing to know why I'm still lurking FW-wiz as I have quit the field, I'm just trying to assess how fast the IT world will collapse in case of a major security threat... (I already know who will survive this, and how ;) ). JDG [0] Not Y2K compliant, so what?!? [1] Or 'lusers' for the BOFH fans ;) [2] Global, but not unfocused! -- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philipp K. Dick _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Jean-Denis Gorin (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Paul D. Robertson (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Skip Carter (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Anton Chuvakin (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Skip Carter (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Chris Blask (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) R. DuFresne (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Behm, Jeff (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Brian Loe (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) R. DuFresne (Apr 23)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Behm, Jeff (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Paul D. Robertson (Apr 14)