On Jul 7, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > From the standpoint of networking security, the real issue is that only a > tiny percentage of soi-disant 'security' practitioners understand TCP/IP, and > only a subset of those understand the interaction of the entire > OS/app/services stack with networking, much less how the Internet really > works in terms of BGP, DNS, how to design/deploy/operate/defend scalable and > resilient networks, and so forth.
> From the standpoint of information security in general, only a tiny > percentage of soi-disant 'security' practitioners understand anything at all > about computer science, about the conceptual underpinnings of coding > securely, of how to design complex systems with fundamentally secure > architectures, et. al. Most appear to be little more than Windows 'power > users', if that. Apologies for the self-reply - some kind of formatting issue somewhere in the message delivery chain made it appear that Michael Chesmore wrote the above stanzas. They were actually part of my reply, sorry for any confusion/apparent misattribution. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list [email protected] https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
