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7/27/2016 | 8:01:33 PM
The real problem I see is lack of training of management of what a professional in the field needs to be effective. I often get unreasonable requests for job responsibilities from the manager; demands for skills not required as well as ignoring critical skills that the manager does not themselves posses and does not realize how crucial they are.
A great way to improve the information security status of an organization would be to improve the low and mid-level management of such teams. It would also help if organizations stopped focusing on the wrong problem. A defensive expert is not a penetration tester, nor are they useful on my team. As one coworker of mine phrased it, a pen tester knows one trick really well and they keep applying it across lots of applications, lots of systems until it works. A defensive expert has to address every application, every threat, every system to ensure that the risks are identified, mitigated and addressed: they have to have something in every column.