Is there a document anywhere that can give me an idea of something along the 
lines of a general "recommended active IT security staff per employee ratio"? 
By "active IT security" I mean in-the-trenches people doing the legwork to get 
the last 3-5% of systems (at 400+ systems nothing is ever 100% in perfectly 
automated sync) fully compliant and up-to-date, keep astride of the IDS 
detections and tracking down which are false positives and which are actual 
alerts, etc.

It has occurred to me that with 450 employees that there should probably be 
more than one FTE handling everything from IDS to keeping patches and AV 
current on all systems, employee training, etc...

Heck I bet I can use one FTE that does NOTHING but track down and mitigate the 
non-compliant systems for AV and patching alone.

David Lum
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764





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