, 2008-01-31
A lot of the emails sent to me ask a basic question: Just how does one break into computer security or what skills should you learn to get that first security job. Lately though, I have been receiving many more queries on specifically how one can leverage an existing skill set to become an information-technology security analyst.

Anonymous
I would say you are doing a disservice to both the info sec community and the sys admin one by your post. My rebuttal to you would be as follows. If you want to attain status as an upper end info sec analyst then yes indeed you need to be able to code and read C and ASM plus scr...
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