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• View from the inside
  I work in IT at a Division I university, and here's what I see:
  1. The pay is far lower than available in the private sector.
  2. One needn't be particularly skilled/intelligent/industrious to retain one's job, especially true for those in management.
  3. One can preach security until one is blue in the face without being able to make a difference.
  4. Servers get compromised frequently, and lessons seem to take repeated exposure to be learned (if ever they are.)
  5. It seems that only security issues dealing with usability of the campus network get much attention. Nimda ran wild through the network for over a month, but it was only within the last couple of years that significant inroads were made in containing malware, as the network edged ever nearer to a "notwork" due to the volume of malicious traffic.
  6. Compromise of personal information is underreported, possibly to the degree of illegality. I know personally of a server that contained credit card and SSN data that was compromised, without notification being given.
  7. The way things SHOULD be done and the way things ARE done are more different than similar.
  8. Priorities are politically motivated, and usually bass ackwards.
  
  That's not all, but isn't that too much already?
  
  (Personal inertia is why I'm still here, that and other personal issues unrelated to skill and/or intelligence.)

  May 22, 2006

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• View from the inside
  I work in IT at a Division I university, and here's what I see:
  1. The pay is far lower than available in the private sector.
  2. One needn't be particularly skilled/intelligent/industrious to retain one's job, especially true for those in management.
  3. One can preach security until one is blue in the face without being able to make a difference.
  4. Servers get compromised frequently, and lessons seem to take repeated exposure to be learned (if ever they are.)
  5. It seems that only security issues dealing with usability of the campus network get much attention. Nimda ran wild through the network for over a month, but it was only within the last couple of years that significant inroads were made in containing malware, as the network edged ever nearer to a "notwork" due to the volume of malicious traffic.
  6. Compromise of personal information is underreported, possibly to the degree of illegality. I know personally of a server that contained credit card and SSN data that was compromised, without notification being given.
  7. The way things SHOULD be done and the way things ARE done are more different than similar.
  8. Priorities are politically motivated, and usually bass ackwards.
  
  That's not all, but isn't that too much already?
  
  (Personal inertia is why I'm still here, that and other personal issues unrelated to skill and/or intelligence.)

  May 22, 2006

  0 replies