thus Troy spake: > I just read this thread... there's certainly some good advice there... > and the requisite goading by some of the more sardonic personalities on > the list... always a pleasure. > > I'm no infosec guru by any means, but as a developer I have more than a > passing interest in the field. Which unfortunately is the exception > rather than the rule in this business. > > I read this list every day, and others as well and one thing I can say > for sure is that you're aiming for a fast moving target... but not an > impossible one to hit. > > Dude said: >> If you want to be a good Security Consultant at the Technical level it >> is important that you have a smattering of everything: programming >> networking, administration, etc.. If you walk into a place and expect >> to start telling people what to do, you should at least have walked a >> mile in their shoes before doing so. This means learning Lotus, >> Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, Linux, BSD, Solaris, >> Windows, etc, ad infinitum. > > That's probably the best advice I've seen in this thread. I've been a > developer/programmer for almost seven years now and have walked in most, > but _not all_ of those shoes, and it really doesn't ever end.
(...) To sum it up: Know both your friends AND your enemies... :) Timo _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/