How is outsourcing and offshoring affecting security and security professionals jobs?
That’s interesting. I was dead set against outsourcing security years ago. After trying to keep people trained and asking for bigger budgets, I found a lot of things become cost effective and more economically feasible. As long as you retain skill and effectiveness internally, then you can leverage to deal with day-to-day work that you don’t need to do inhouse. There really are some benefits. The biggest thing to worry about is to make sure you hire someone who knows what they’re doing. It’s very competitive. You might know absolutely nothing about them… You really have to do your due diligence that they’re trustworthy, they know their stuff and they’ll be there in the long haul with yah… They know every vulnerability and skull in the closet, so you need to make sure that today’s security consultant doesn’t become tomorrow’s hacker. Q: Overall, are companies safer today than they were a year ago or two years ago? Absolutely. We’re far better off this year than last year, and signif
