John,
Actually, I do agree with you, and no offense was taken.
\
Interestingly enough, when I was interviewing here, it was for a
sysprog opening.
After being interviewd by the sysprog manager and the VP of operations,
I had a "final" interview with the CIO.
The CIO noticed on my resume that I had some experience in the RACF
arena (can you say GSD-331....); he asked if I would be interested in a RACF
job for the same pay - he felt that his security organizaion needed more
technical mainframe knowledge - someone who could intelligently interface with
the sysprogs and rest of the data center.
The rest is history. Our CIO is not your run-of the-mill executive -
he started professional life as an operator on a mainframe.
Randy
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Subject: Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
I do not know Randall Gross personally, and it was anyway no part of my intent
to impugn the competence of any particular mainframe security specialist. I
indeed made it clear that I judge that the effectiveness of such groups varies
widely.
I am nevertheless unrepentent about my view that most of these groups are no
great shakes technically, bureaucratically orient[at]ed, and ineffective.
I am not sure just how 'staggering vacations in financial institutions'
dissolves collusions. It may well prevent them during the interval when either
of, say, two colluders is vacationing; but there would still be ample
opportunity for collusive misbehavior during the the nine months (assuming
six-week non-overlapping vacations for each of two colluders) when both would
be present.
Indeed, the historical rationale for these longish bank-officer
vacations|holidays has been that they provided opportunities for the
detection of fraud, not that they prevented it; and for this purpose
simultaneous vacations for two colluding officers would be more effective.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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