Showing posts with label IT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IT. Show all posts

24 April, 2018

Need for security-professionals in Norway

Yes, it's been an often-discussed topic in Norwegian media in later years:

"Lack of security-professionals."

Well, as commented in this (Norwegian) article, BY a security-professional; there seems to be a lack of security-oriented IT professionals, but, not because they aren't there at all. They are. What is seriously lacking in this scenario, is competence in recruiting firms looking for this kind of competence. Always has been.

Computer-security is not a fixed-set field, AT ALL. Even though a lot of so-called "professionals" seem to be stuck on the idea that it is.

Serious professionals wanting to work in this field on the other hand, are (often) painfully aware of what it actually entails to do so:

  • constant refreshing on networking- / computing- / vulnerability-security in IT
  • vulnerability-monitoring of often-used software in the company
  • a simple awareness of the fact that: nobody is ever 100% secure
Computer-security is a weight-battle; does the securing of something vulnerable affect normal operations? Or, is the fix / security-measure absolutely needed for normal operations? These are everyday obstacles a security-professional has to deal with on a regular basis, so they have to be quite flexible on expanding their knowledge-base, and often.

These points are often completely missed by recruiters. They don't look for ability / knowledge / flexibility, they often tend to only look at academic degrees (preferably multiple(!)), gender, published articles / blog-posts and other non-related (and often quite unrealistic) demands for the position(s) in question.

Then, they complain about not finding any candidates for their outrageous requirements.

Seriously, re-define your demands / requirements to a more realistic degree, maybe you'll find a competent person to do the job. But you most certainly will NOT find the dream-candidate with the kind of demands currently set as standard.

20 May, 2009

Oppsiktsvekkende samarbeid


http://www.digi.no/813870/linux-foundation-i-seng-med-%ABfienden%BB

At Microsoft og Linux Foundation skulle samarbeide om et felles mål var nok ikke i tankene til folk for tiden. Hverken i Linux-miljøet eller hos programvare-giganten Microsoft.

Samarbeidet skyldes et lovforslag som skal legges frem i USA som omhandler programvarekontrakter.

Lovforslaget foreslår bl.a. at det innføres en garanti-ordning hvor programvare leveres uten materielle defekter.

Dette motstrider mange programvare lisenser som brukes av både Microsoft og Linux-miljøet, og de har derfor skrevet et brev sammen til ALI (American Law Institute), som kan lastes ned her.

Poenget Microsoft og Linux Foundation vil få frem er at hvis underforståtte garantier innføres, vil det føre til unødvendig mange rettstvister som kan ødelegge for deling av teknologi.

I-og-med alle rettsakene rundt IT de siste årene virker ikke dette urealistisk, og vil garantert ødelegge mer for IT industrien enn det vil hjelpe.

N.B.: I åpen kildekode miljøet slår dette ut på selve GPL-lisensen, fordi den avkaster alle garantier og gir brukeren av nevnt lisens rettigheter og valgmuligheter til å bestemme selv. Microsoft og andre aktører innen kommersiell datavirksomhet taper også på dette, fordi de ikke kan bruke programvare/kode gitt ut under slike lisenser, hverken for å forbedre på teknologien og gi tilbake, eller tjene penger på det. Lovforslaget reflekterer ikke realistiske virkninger på normale kommersielle lover i bruk idag