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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: How to get better security people
On that note, Etrade layed off their entire net sec team a few months back. I don't trade there no more. ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to get better security people > > > > > According to a recent salary survey telephone companies have some > of the lowest paid information security professionals in comparison > with other technology corporations, federal government, or financial > companies. When the US Transportation Security Administration (aka, > the agency in charge of airport screeners) is paying their computer > security people more than telephone companies, its hard for phone > companies to attact top security talent. > > Customers need to let companies know that security and responsiveness > affects their purchasing decisions. I think some companies > are getting > the message. But in today's market, with tight budgets and layoffs, > security is often viewed as overhead. A lot of providers are lucky > if they have one network engineer who does security stuff in her spare > time. Full-fledge security departments are rare. > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Eric Whitehill wrote: > > UUNet, by far is the best. I've had mixed results with > Sprint. A couple > > of years ago I had to deal with Hurricane Electric and the > tech was really good about > > it - he added in the ACL I needed right over the phone. > > > > Also, I know of a couple providers in the upper midwest > that are pretty > > good at working with DOS stuff. Email me off list if you are > > interested. >
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