Specialise to survive?

[daniel at virturity.com (Daniel)]

With all the InfoSec career content recently (and this is not meant in a
bad way) i would be interested to hear the other side. 
What about the people who really tried but cannot land a job in InfoSec?
Or the HR recruiter who might not know what that CISSP, CISM, GPEN, etc
thing is but is using it as criteria to sort out applicants? Or the guy
who got an InfoSec job but it turned out to not be what they expected?
Whats their story?

Then again it might be hard to get hold of those people.

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:55 -0400, Michael Douglas wrote:

> Maybe we should have an InfoSec career round-table on the show
> sometime soon.  Any votes on this?  If you like the idea, please send
> some questions our way!
>
> - Mick
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Robert
> Portvliet<robert.portvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What do you guys think of this article?
> >
> > http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/08/specialization.html
> >
> > Do you feel it's better to study different areas of infosec (incident
> > handling AND penetration testing, for instance) or do you think it's
> > best to pick one area & focus all your efforts on learning everything
> > you can about it?
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