Re: security not a big priority?

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

They hired you to be a security analyst? I'd start looking for a job,
but in the mean time just ask your boss why he hired you in this
position if he wasn't going to implement anything you suggest.

On 2/14/07, Francois Yang <francois.y () gmail com> wrote:
> So I have a problem and like to know what you guys think.
> I'm a Security Analyst at an Education institute. A community college
> to be more precise.
> So I was brought on board to address security issues and work on
> making this place a better place.  Now the problem is.
> 1. I'm in the network operation team.  no security group.
> 2. My boss doesn't seem to know much about security.
> 3. My boss doesn't seem to think highly of security since all my
> projects seems to be of low priority.
> 4. I have a long list of things that needs to be done and they are all
> waiting for the engineers to work on it. But again they have better
> things to do.
> So what am I suppose to do? look for another job? :)
> anyone run into this problem before?
> I'm at the point where I'm not sure what to do.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you
> don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
> Bruce Schneier