What does a ‘Computer Security Specialist’ do?
This is all I found on yahoo: Computer Security Specialist
A big chunk of the ARRA money is dedicated to health-care information-technology initiatives — digitizing medical records so they’re easier to transmit and share between doctors, hospitals and pharmacists. Computer-security experts who can help keep electronic medical records locked away from computer hackers and other unauthorized users will be in high demand as the health-care sector modernizes, says Laurence Shatkin, author of "Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan."
Other specialists will be needed to train workers on how to keep the data safe. A brief certificate program may suffice to get you started in this field, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says. "There’s going to be a special role here of how to keep prying eyes away," Shatkin says.
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Computer Security Specialists are basically anti hackers. They are often paid to even hack a network to try get access to information by the company with the information and then offer advice on how to tighten security and fix the hole where the specialist got in. Basically you’d rather your good hacker find the hole and fix it then a bad hacker find it and abuse it.
Also they can work similiar to network admins watching a network for an intrusion detection and trying to backhack the hacker to find out where he is and shut him down.
Watch the movie "Hackers", the bad guy is actually a computer security specialist who’s gone bad, but what he does is what a computer security specialist might do. However of course with the movie world its made far prettier then what it really is for the "show" look.
They specialise in computer security.
Mostly sit around and BS on the internet all day.
The term "Computer Security Specialist" is relatively vague and does not lend itself to being a credible job title. I am an IT security professional, have been for over a decade. I mostly do penetration testing and security audits. I am also my company’s network administrator and a level three technician as needed. (It’s a small IT services company.)
You have to clearly define the roles involved, since separation of roles is one of the cornerstones of network security.