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A career in infosec tends to develop an extremely broad set of skills (with commensurate lack of depth in many of them) that can turn you into a generalist supe
by jcims 6y ago
A career in infosec tends to develop an extremely broad set of skills (with commensurate lack of depth in many of them) that can turn you into a generalist superhero when shit hits the fan. Back in my heyday I would get called in to help fix outages as much as I would for security work. Feltgoodman.
Ten years later and I'm now adrift in some weird role between an engineer and program director with zero accountability. I just go from Zoom meeting to Zoom meeting knocking down bullshit and connecting the right people in a big company. I've essentially become a giant tube of organizational lube. Feelsbadman.
- geoduck14 6y ago>organizational lube Hey honey, happy Valentines day!
- motohagiography 6y agoIndeed, the breadth piece is huge. The depth, so long as you have some extra self awareness that you literally only know the table of contents level of most things, and can do some composition of them while knowing where to find people with depth in them, you can solve a lot of problems. If you can tell whether you need new science to solve a problem, or it's a function of work by composing a bunch of solved problems, that's going to elevate your abilities fast as well. I wonder if the right metaphor is security is like the eng.sci of tech. Reality is in security is we've spent a career navigating, negotiating, and implementing the real power relationships that the technology facilitates. These are performance, economic, legal, business, organizational, environmental, institutional, etc.
- jcims 6y agoPerfect encapsulation of why I love working in infosec.