Comments on: What does a ‘Computer Security Specialist’ do?

By: chmacqueen

chmacqueen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:08 +0000

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.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:08 +0000

They specialise in computer security.

By: SynfulVisions

SynfulVisions — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:08 +0000

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.