Firewalls
Anecdote
I was sitting in Deutsche Bank talking to the main man in information security, the CISO. He said, “If it wasn’t for the Internet and firewalls, I’d still be earning $45,000 a year working for a minor IT manager.” This dude was on a yearly salary of at least $150,000.
And that is a fact for most of us. Nobody, not even the banks, paid good money for security before IP networks became predominant. When the Internet took off, if you were one of a couple dozen people in the U.K. who could spell firewall, you got treated like a minor rock star.
God, how ...
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