RE: Dumb newbie question

["Isaac Van Name" <ivanname () southerlandsleep com>]

One thing I try to do when looking for a new job is to find job ads online
(Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, etc.) that match that title and then see what
each employer requires of the "successful candidate".  By comparing those
required (and optional) skills and proficiencies with my own, I can see what
I need to work on and also if I'm a prime candidate.  So, I figure you could
apply that to your current situation and do a job search for "security"
under the Information Technology category on any job website.  Compile a
list of qualifications, compare them to yours, and gauge whether you have a
chance or not.

Hope it works out for you.

Isaac Van Name

-----Original Message-----
From: jonathan () thatswhy net [mailto:jonathan () thatswhy net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:48 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Dumb newbie question

Hi


Ok this will probably be a really dumb question to all of you but I have not
been able to find  an answer possibly as there is not a correct one so I
would value all opinions regarding this.


I work large international IT comapany. One of our biggest customers who is
also an international comapny outsourced all their IT needs and
infrastructure to us. They have 3 sites around the country and I am based at
their warehouse and am responsible for the IT environment on the site. I and
my 2 man team look after the servers, local lan and about 200 users. We dont
work on the Cisco Wan equipment as that is done by our Cisco engineers
although I am responsible for ensuring that they only provide access to
approved external companies etc. My main day to day tasks apart from
ensuring that my team handle all the support calls is to ensure that the all
the servers and workstations have the latest security patches, virus defs
etc. I also have to ensure that our customers securrity policy is
implemented by ourselves and the users. I also help with drafting the
policies in as far as it is applicable to this site. That is what I do now.


I am looking at emergrating to Australia and need to get my skills assessed.
2 of the ocupations are computing professional - CSSIP and computing
professional - network security. When they assess these they dont look at
qualifacations just at what your job was for the last 12 months. Obviously
CISSP is not for me but network security could be. The problem is though
that they dont define it and it is a lot of money to apply only to find out
they mean only people who work on routers etc.


Anyone have  any comments or knowledge of what they would consider network
security and considering what I do, would this fir into that category.


Thanks.

Jonathan

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