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Any g/u/rls working as a security analyst
| I am one. Honestly, especially at the lower levels this field is full of absolute retards. They exist like parasites to leech off the scraps of the productive class of programmers and infrastructure admins. Expect to be treated as such, even if you try to be useful.
| >>211260
When you say "leech off", what do you mean? I'm afraid I'd just be some sort of IT guy staring at my logs and views all day not really making any decisions; is that kind of what you mean?
In my last position I had a lot of freedom and creative flexibility (aside from how corporate it was). I get that won't get the same experience as an analyst of any sort but security is especially something I want to try before I grad.
| >>211266
You basically have to reverse malware in your spare time to be the cream of the crop. Takes a special brand of autism.
| >>211275
To the rest of the IT department you will always be the guy who "doesn't do anything" since security work is not often very visible. Most security folks I've worked with basically just spend money on security products as their job, without any real understanding of how to secure a system or even how a computer works. If you want my honest advice, you should stick to development. I wish I had.
| I probably will. I'm just really trying to get a job for the summer.
I'll be careful though for sure. Try to make get a feel for how I'll be treated there.
| Security things is fluffed up bullshit, tbh, and sorry for breaking a lot of hearts here.
It is important and needs knowledge. But the way it has ended up to be implemented is crap. There is no such thing as 'security analyst'. Instead security is everywhere and everyone using a computer should be aware of how the compromise and breach of their work system influences the big picture. But we have computer drones, thus security analysts, who try to give water a shape.
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| I have a job interview (8 month position between school) coming up and I'm looking for some suggestions on must have skills, if there are any /tech/ies out there in the same field.
Assume I've got a bachellors level of computing knowledge but have only ever worked as a software developer before.