Re: Help with education

[Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler () riscworks net>]

thus Troy spake:
> I just read this thread... there's certainly some good advice there...
> and the requisite goading by some of the more sardonic personalities on
> the list... always a pleasure.
>
> I'm no infosec guru by any means, but as a developer I have more than a
> passing interest in the field. Which unfortunately is the exception
> rather than the rule in this business.
>
> I read this list every day, and others as  well and one thing I can say
> for sure is that you're aiming for a fast moving target... but not an
> impossible one to hit.
>
> Dude said:
> > If you want to be a good Security Consultant at the Technical level it
> > is important that you have a smattering of everything: programming
> > networking, administration, etc.. If you walk into a place and expect
> > to start telling people what to do, you should at least have walked a
> > mile in their shoes before doing so. This means learning Lotus,
> > Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
> > Windows, etc, ad infinitum.
>
> That's probably the best advice I've seen in this thread. I've been a
> developer/programmer for almost seven years now and have walked in most,
> but _not all_ of those shoes, and it really doesn't ever end.

(...)

To sum it up: Know both your friends AND your enemies... :)

Timo

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