DHS to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts

[tadaka at gmail.com (Jason Wood)]

Very good point.  Having never worked in this space, this isn't something
that I've had to deal with.  I'm more used to the opposite end of the
spectrum on procedures.



On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Ben Greenfield <bcg at struxural.com> wrote:

> Having previously worked with a community along those lines, and left
> for a smaller private company, I can say personally the bigger issue
> for me was never salary, it was culture and inefficient bureaucracy.
>
> In my limited experience I found that many government agencies and the
> business partners who work with them had their hands tied by what seem
> to the people in the trenches to be arbitrary policies that don't
> always seem correct.  In my experience we were required to take orders
> from multiple authorities, and often it was clear that they were not
> communicating effectively with each other, and would frequently get in
> pissing contests that left everyone beneath them at a disadvantage.
>
> On top of that, the list of software and hardware we were allowed to
> use required doing a cross-comparison between numerous lists that take
> aeon's to get approved onto.  I can specifically recall situations
> where I needed to apply a patch, but that the patch would have changed
> the version number, and the new patched version number wasn't
> approved.
>
> My .02 cents is that the .gov infrastructure badly needs intelligent
> infosec people making smart decisions, but that if they can't do
> something about the culture of inefficiency they won't be able to keep
> the good employees motivated long enough to enact the changes they
> need.
>
> I have positive things to say as well, but they aren't as interesting...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Jason Wood <tadaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read about this yesterday at the Washington Post.  DHS is saying that
> they
> > want to hire the best experts they can find, but the .gov salary ranges
> have
> > never been very enticing.  I wonder how well it will really work out.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, <bradnel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/02/dhs.cybersecurity.jobs/index.html
> > > This ought to make this interesting.
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