full-disclosure - IT security professionals in demand in 2006

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Date: Tue Dec  6 17:12:46 2005
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: IT security professionals in demand in 2006

Never cast perls before swine.

--On Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:05:28 -0500 "J. Patterson Wicks" 
<pwicks@...gen.com> wrote:

>
>
> What does being able to write code have to do with physically securing a
> data center?  What does being able to write code have to do planning for
> disaster recovery?  There is more to IT security than exploits and
> viruses.  Business (both big and small) need professionals to interface
> with the different divisions within an organization.  I don't know a lot
> of security professionals that can explain the mechanism used by a virus
> to circumvent AV software detection.  I also don't know a lot of coders
> who can explain to the legal department the SOX standards for email and
> IM retention.  Most of my "security professional" peers operate at the
> mid-to-upper management level and must provide a secured environment to
> many sites throughout the country.  Although some of my peers were
> originally coders, only a fraction of their time now involves coding, if
> at all.
>
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/