What, no VAX VMS or OpenVMS? People still use it in healthcare systems even though it came out around 1978.
How I miss the good old days in the 1990's using a vax/vms in high school and UUCP'ing to send mail out of the building, and using our student BBS authored in DCL.
Consider a job in infosec. Here are a few quick suggestions for building experience without a job
- Research something within the infosec space, publish a paper
- Find some vulns and publish some advisories (responsible disclosure!!)
- Start attending OWASP chapter meetings and start networking
I've been in infosec for 8 years without a degree and as long as you know wtf you're talking about (as is the case in many tech jobs), can admit when you don't know something, and can figure it out on your own you're fine.
- If your company allows you to do your job.
- If you are provided with the resources you need to do your job
- If you can make a difference (and feel as though you can)
I have worked in enterprises where I was a simple task monkey not having the ability to influence real change with little management buy-in and I was extremely unhappy.
Now I work for an enterprise doing security and they have provided me with the tools to do my job with the ability to actually improve process/procedures including education.
In my case I'm happy but it wasn't always this way.
Linux is great at doing many many things but it hasn't really broken into the home desktop market. Yes you slashdotter's can say it is easy to setup but until more desktop manufacturers (yes dell has started but isn't marketing this) start offering it on all models it isn't going to catch on. Likely apple will keep growing at its current pace (if apple were smart they'd offer low end models between $500-$800 with a monitor which would greatly expand their userbase).
This is something a lot of us in the industry have been writing about. Here's my rant from last October
Browser Security: I Want A Website Active Content Policy File Standard! http://www.cgisecurity.com/2007/11/08
Slashdot Mirror
Do you believe a democratic society can exist which has no form of religion in its laws, or within government?
Cross-site Scripting FAQ http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/03/login-detection-whose-problem-is-it.html
The XSS FAQ
http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html
XSS FAQ
http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html
WASC Threat Classification - Cross-site Scripting
http://projects.webappsec.org/Cross-Site+Scripting
A CSRF vulnerability?
@ http://www.cgisecurity.com/2009/07/antisec-hackers-replace-all-imageshack-images.html
The Cross-site Scripting (XSS) FAQ http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html
The Cross-site Scripting FAQ http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html
What, no VAX VMS or OpenVMS? People still use it in healthcare systems even though it came out around 1978. How I miss the good old days in the 1990's using a vax/vms in high school and UUCP'ing to send mail out of the building, and using our student BBS authored in DCL.
http://www.cgisecurity.org/xss-faq.html
Consider a job in infosec. Here are a few quick suggestions for building experience without a job - Research something within the infosec space, publish a paper - Find some vulns and publish some advisories (responsible disclosure!!) - Start attending OWASP chapter meetings and start networking I've been in infosec for 8 years without a degree and as long as you know wtf you're talking about (as is the case in many tech jobs), can admit when you don't know something, and can figure it out on your own you're fine.
http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/csrf-faq.shtml
If it wasn't that great then why do most thumb drives use it? :)
Depends on if
- If your company allows you to do your job.
- If you are provided with the resources you need to do your job
- If you can make a difference (and feel as though you can)
I have worked in enterprises where I was a simple task monkey not having the ability to influence real change with little management buy-in and I was extremely unhappy. Now I work for an enterprise doing security and they have provided me with the tools to do my job with the ability to actually improve process/procedures including education. In my case I'm happy but it wasn't always this way.
Linux is great at doing many many things but it hasn't really broken into the home desktop market. Yes you slashdotter's can say it is easy to setup but until more desktop manufacturers (yes dell has started but isn't marketing this) start offering it on all models it isn't going to catch on. Likely apple will keep growing at its current pace (if apple were smart they'd offer low end models between $500-$800 with a monitor which would greatly expand their userbase).
Salary: 60k-120's
Consultant: 80k-150k+
SAP Security Consultant: 200k+
Facts
- Seattle average home cost - 400kish
- Bay area home cost - 600-650kish
- WA state taxes - 0
- CA state taxes - pwned paycheck
I just started up this blog on AI you may find related/interesting. http://www.eatheists.com/2008/06/the-scope-of-artificial-intelligence/
Cognitive science is something many AI people don't consider. What makes up the human mind? Are emotions really needed? I've recently started a blog dealing with these sorts of things that a few of you may find interesting. http://www.eatheists.com/2008/05/the-challenge-of-mind-duplication-and-transfer/
This is something a lot of us in the industry have been writing about. Here's my rant from last October Browser Security: I Want A Website Active Content Policy File Standard!
http://www.cgisecurity.com/2007/11/08
Jeremiah Grossman's thoughts
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/06/site-security-policy-open-for-comments.html
http://www.cgisecurity.com/2008/05/11
SSD is fairly cheap on eBay
http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml
FP!