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Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])
From: Devdas Bhagat <dvb () users sourceforge net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:53:02 +0530
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:09:05PM +0400, ArkanoiD wrote: <snip>
Have you noticed those? Those guys who started in early 2000s and who are *experienced professionals* now? They are not visionaries, nor scientists
Hey, I resemble that remark.
(not am i, though), they are not bright minds either. You do not see them on any security conferences (well, actually there *are* conferences they attend, they are just different ones we consider boring), they do not show
Honestly, if I could afford to travel to a security conference (or two), I would. At this point, all conference funding comes out of my pocket and my personal budget is highly limited.
up on any workgroups or technical commetees, they do not invent and more, they do not really have a clue to stay on the leading edge (how ridiculously does it sound when applied to our pretty conservative field,
That depends on what bits of infosec you consider bleeding edge. For most applications, the security rules are fairly well known and attacks don't change all that often. If you can't fix the holes, and bandages don't work very well, you have to give up and work on where you can make a change. My current areas of focus are on outbound filtering (rather than inbound) and education. Applying Postel's law to networks and networked applications is useful. The nicest thing about the stock market collapse is that it is a glaring example of bad things happening. "It would never happen to us" does not apply in the real world. Don't try and sell things because they are the right thing to do. That doesn't work. Pointing out how their lack of security will impact operations helps (You will be infected by a virus, it will try to propagate and consume expensive internet bandwidth. You will be blocked for spamming.) Management doesn't understand security, but they understand reputation. Most people don't think in terms of worst case scenarios. That's what I learnt from The Black Swan. We are exceptions to that rule. We think almost solely in terms of rare, worst case scenarios. I have moved to waiting for disaster to strike, and then recovering the pieces. Take my advice and don't blow up, don't take my advice and blow up spectacularly. If you are lucky, you will be too big to fail.
but there *is* something like that). They just do their *carreer*. And they do it quite well, even more: they do not give a shit about who you are and what can you do - there are other things that count, like "did you have a senoir management job at company we do respect" (no one even cares if you performed there good enough, the signle fact that you were there is what that counts) and they are always welcome in the corporate world. So i am just a loser who did not get into that pack in time and now it is too late. I did not care about money much and i did not care about the carreer much, i just tried to do something to make this crazy world a little bit sane. And i failed epically. There are some positive changes
Meh. Epic failure is better than not trying at all. You never know when success will happen. Or why. Or how. Devdas Bhagat -- Slumdog sysadmin _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Anton Chuvakin (Apr 15)
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- 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]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 16)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 16)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 20)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 20)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 20)
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