On 3/30/06, Deanna Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Qwerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would it be fair to say that a Systems Administrator and a > >Network Administrator are no longer two seperate entities but > >have become one and the same. Don't the two dabble more and > >more into each other's business. > > I'd say certainly not; in fact the trend seems to be in the > opposite direction. I've worked for quite a few big companies > in the USA and the most disturbing trend I've seen is the > compartmentalization of operations into discrete groups that > rarely communicate and are often at odds with one another. > > The most annoying of these, to me, is the "security team." As > if security hasn't always been one of the system administrator's > core functions. >
Certainly, but it really depends on how security-aware those sysadmins are. Here, a security team is necessary to lay the LART upon the heads of those ubiquitous non-IT engineers who have been given sysadmin powers and who haven't a clue about security. It means when I discover a gaping hole in someone's project I don't have to waste my time wielding the LART. Greg
