By Will Sturgeon, 26 July 2004 14:20
NEWS silicon.com has always valued your feedback. Now we want you to play an even bigger part in deciding what content is to go on the site - by posing the questions yourselves.
In a new feature on silicon.com, we are giving you the opportunity to put your questions to some of the industry's most informed, outspoken, controversial and best-known figures on the issues of greatest importance to you and your business.
To kick off the series of articles, we have assembled an outstanding panel of experts from the security industry to field your questions, whether they are in regards to hacking, spam, spyware, viruses, legislation or any other issue that you believe should be addressed.
The panel includes:
Mark Morris, head of forensics, Logica CMG
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant, Sophos
Paul Wood, chief information analyst, MessageLabs
Alyn Hockey, director of research, Clearswift
Simon Janes, international operations director, ibas
Enrique Salem, CEO, Brightmail (now VP, Symantec)
Mike Small, director of security strategy, CA
David Naylor, partner, Morrison & Foerster
Comments
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1. Pete
Is it too late for new people to enter the security field as more that just configuration personnel?
With the current technology advances, it seems harder and harder to break into systems (at least that is what I think). For example, Ipv4 is being replaced with the more secure Ipv6, quantum cryptography is on the horizon, buffer overflow problems are being solved with modern tools e.g. C#, default lockdown of software, on board of security chips, advancement of firewalls and IDSes, e.t.c.
Technology seems to be closing the opportunities of finding flaws in systems as well as the career opportunities.
Is the security industry closed? Is it time to be realistic and look for another career?
What advice can you give to someone interested in learning both sides of security (‘black’ & ‘white’ hat) as they complement each other?
Thanks
Peter
(A person at crossroads of security and new occupation)
2. John Foster
Seems to me that most of the spam messages contain clickable URLs. If mail servers simply refused to pass on HTML emails, the spam problem could be greatly reduced without affecting overall useability too much.