Yet another request for career advice.

[A D <hackermuscle () gmail com>]

Hi all.

I recently started working for a new company (beginning of the year)
as part of the networked systems team. We currently manage 300 or so
systems provisioned at a handful of datacenters around the world. 97%
of the systems or running Linux. We have no official security team.
Just good common sense and a need to steer clear of becoming
compromised. My last few jobs I have always been the security
administrator (perimeter security services) so I have some experience
and built in paranoia about what goes on behind the scenes. This
appears to me to be a perfect opportunity to really jump into a
security role by taking the lead in providing vulnerability scans and
penetration testing for the company. I have had exposure to the
typical scanning tools pre-installed with the Backtrack distro and
some others. Although, my Metaspoit skills suck at the moment.

With the hope of providing some quick results and to get my employer
interested in my abilities I am going to jump right in and start doing
whitebox testing using NMAP and Nessus.

What suggestions do you guys have to allow me to step up to the
challenge? This is what want to do in the next phase of my career.

Thanks in adv.

HM
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