With a nose for unsafe software you’re good – Computable

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One in five workers in the ICT sector fears for his job, according to recent studies. This is because exchange activities and functions rapidly. Many IT people worry whether they have enough abilities and skills to meet the new conditions

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I see around me those changes but I think the love of the IT specialist for the profession, it wins the worries. Definitely a specialist who chooses cybersecurity and -crime makes I think is a good career choice. To secure or hacking of the Internet of Things (IoT) is according to research firm Gartner, an incredible amount of work and a lot of money to. Even that question I do not diminish.

Not that I am advocating for a career as a criminal, but the dividing line between protector and hacker is paper thin, we know since the trilogy by Stieg Larsson. His heroine Lisbeth Salander constantly navigates between good and evil. She works for its own interest, but also with a security firm, helps to denounce social abuses, but benefits as easily that information to fill its own bank account.

Constant rat race

In the real world it’s true. Protectors and cybercriminals keep each other busy in a constant rat race. Since they do not bother us. If hacker can simply remain on the payroll of a company and it is guessing what those neat security consultant performs in his spare time. They also meet just in public. Salander had the appearance and behavior of a nerd, but even there you should not rely on.

Meanwhile, there is the cyber security and -crime much money. Every year, the Dutch economy is heading for 1.6 billion loss in the form of lost productivity and lost revenue by errors in digital security. Vulnerabilities, applications and software. Reputation damage and security costs are not even included in that calculation. It involves a multitude.

The rat race is simple. Hackers are out applications to do something that the system does not want. For example, this could crash the software. That way they can most easily break. The “other side” wants to prevent this course and convinces security with firewalls, passwords, antivirus programs and what not

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‘Nose’

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How can you capitalize on this science now as a professional? You could develop a ‘nose’ for insecure software. I deliberately say nose, because you can not tell the difference between safe and unsafe. It is quite possible that you are currently using all insecure software. Until something goes wrong, there is nothing to worry about.

Hackers know some things for sure, so I showed interviews. Software is often made in undue haste, the development costs are sometimes deliberately kept low and not all programmers are well trained and screened. Moreover, there is not always monitor the environment of users. See here your chance to stay afloat as IT specialist in a changing market. Make sure you’re wanted, what you can.

In a dynamic market where demand and money, you do not fall quickly by the wayside. Larsson’s brainchild Salander eventually became financially independent

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