It’s the nature of IT – and IT security – that things are always changing. We’re hearing rumblings that the death of the DMZ is finally upon us, and I have an article about that coming soon on Windowsecurity.com. If firewalls go away, what happens to firewall administrators?
One area of IT security that isn’t going away anytime soon is computer forensics. Cybercrime is on the increase, and in order to prosecute those crimes, the state needs evidence. It’s the job of the computer forensics expert to collect, preserve and document that evidence. But what does it take to get into this very specialized field? See my article over on TechRepublic, So You Want to be a Computer Forensics Expert, to find out:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/so-you-want-to-be-a-computer-forensics-expert/4866