Comments on: Security Mentoring Perspectives http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/113 Cutaway's Observations, Opinions, Rants, Raves, Tantrums, and Tirades Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:30:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keydet89 http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/113/comment-page-1#comment-3448 Keydet89 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:29:03 +0000 http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/113#comment-3448 I commented on Richard's blog...I think that it's entirely possible to have mentoring, albeit not as formal as some might expect. You yourself mentioned that security professionals are leaders, and I fully agree with this. I've seen others in the community have to stand up and give the customer the bad news ("No, sir, we can't answer your questions due to the condition of the systems upon our arrival"), and I've done so myself. I've also been in the position of having information that has given me a completely different view of the incident (one that was perhaps politically incorrect) from the primary for the engagement. That being said, mentoring can take place anywhere, anytime. I was at BlackhatDC last week and took the opportunity to just absorb whatever I could from those speaking, as well as from those I spoke to. One does not have to have a formal system in place for mentoring to occur. Harlan http://windowsir.blogspot.com I commented on Richard’s blog…I think that it’s entirely possible to have mentoring, albeit not as formal as some might expect. You yourself mentioned that security professionals are leaders, and I fully agree with this. I’ve seen others in the community have to stand up and give the customer the bad news (“No, sir, we can’t answer your questions due to the condition of the systems upon our arrival”), and I’ve done so myself. I’ve also been in the position of having information that has given me a completely different view of the incident (one that was perhaps politically incorrect) from the primary for the engagement.

That being said, mentoring can take place anywhere, anytime. I was at BlackhatDC last week and took the opportunity to just absorb whatever I could from those speaking, as well as from those I spoke to. One does not have to have a formal system in place for mentoring to occur.

Harlan
http://windowsir.blogspot.com

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