Information Security News: Wanted: Cyber Warriors and Media Sanitizers

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/raytheon/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
July 22, 2009 

Defense and intelligence contractor Raytheon is moving into the 
lucrative realm of cyber warfare, and wants to hire hundreds of “cyber 
warriors” to “play offense and defense,” according to an advertisement 
on the company’s web site.

“President Obama recently announced that cyber security is one of our 
country’s most urgent national security priorities,” reads the ad. 
“Raytheon is answering that call by hiring more cyber warriors this year 
to help fight the digital cyber war.”

The ad says the company has 250 positions available in its Intelligence 
and Information Systems (IIS) division. The jobs are for, among others, 
reverse engineers, kernel developers, and vulnerability and intrusion 
detection engineers. Raytheon also has positions available for something 
called “media sanitation specialists.”

The latter probably refers to workers skilled at erasing data from hard 
drives and other storage, rather than to workers capable of spinning the 
company’s message to journalists.  But Raytheon did not respond to a 
call seeking clarification.

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