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zen@flying.fish.com (d) writes:

>In article <4duqe2$h6c$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Barry Herman <102744.2375@CompuServe.COM> writes:
->   My career goal is to become a Systems Security Analyst / Computer
->   Security Expert.

>How the world changes... just a few years ago, this would be unheard of
>(or this person would be thought of as being very odd)... to think that
>computer security has turned (very much so, in some cases) lucrative!
>What a concept.

Indeed Dan, in the past such a request would be frowned upon by the
established experts as 'probably some wannabee hacker fishing for holes'.

Back then there was no way to become a security expert unless you were
already enjoying a nice university or big company sysadmin/research job,
with time to burn and all the networking/machines/facilities you wanted
to work on one's private projects during working hours. Back then a
qualification of 'security expert' wasn't something you chose, it was
something forced onto you because some hacker chose your site as a target,
and because of that had to learn fast to survive, or get wiped out.

Rob
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   Rob J. Nauta					rob@redwood.nl
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