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March 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM
larryboy2

Career change to IT Security/Consulting

by larryboy2 . Updated 16 years, 4 months ago

I’m well into the middle of my IT career. I started in application support for a large client server billing application. It was essentially an IT service management role at the application level, primarily in incident, problem, and change management, and a little capacity and performance management (think ITIL v2). After many years in that capacity, most as a team lead, I worked my way over to a technical project management position. I have experience in UNIX, Perl, and Windows (of course) with a smattering of Linux. I’ve long been interested in IT security, but have had no time to really delve into it. I try to keep up with basic security news and such, but don’t have any solid experience. I am very interested in trying to refocus my career in the direction of IT Security, but don’t really know how to do that. I’ve also been interested in IT consulting, although I’m not sure what services I would be able to provide. Does anyone have any recommendations in either direction? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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