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DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts 222

Cyrus writes "DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to hire 1,000 security experts over the next three years. 'Department officials could not say precisely how many cyberexperts now work at DHS and its various component agencies such as the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Napolitano said she doubts it will be necessary to fill all 1,000 of the authorized positions, but she is focused on making DHS a "world-class cyberorganization."'" Cringely points out, "There aren't one thousand civilian cybersecurity experts in the entire friggin' world!!!!," except he uses all caps and bold.

Comment setup a wiki (Score 5, Interesting) 528

At my last few companies and my current one that I work out, one of the first things I do is setup an internal only Wiki server.

Not only does this let me document everything I can about the network but I also try an train my co-workers in using it to document information they feel is important for their job too.

The effectiveness though seems to be related to the level of computer literacy of the user, i.e. my last company the software developers went crazy with it and documented everything they could think of. But other than them or us in the I.T. dept, no one use would hardly touch it at all.

Either way it's still a simple method for your to store notes, diagrams or any information about your network in an easy to find single location that you feel would be important to the company should you leave for any reason.

Comment How about having a good lawyer? (Score 0) 573

He signed a contract to do the work, his lawyer (assuming he had one...) should have told him "look, you're getting this amount, nothing more". You can negotiate a contract and get ryalties and residuals and 'points', just like an actor in traditional media.

To: G4from128k "Would this actor have been willing to return the $100K (or more) if the game had lost money?"

Should actors and bands return their pay if the movie or album bomb? So why would he even entertain that idea?

End of the day, Michael Hollick is an idiot for not working with the lawyers for a better deal.

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