Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

Bringing in Security Consultants

Security consulting is a business that boomed beyond all expectations just before the turn of the century. The ever-increasing plague of hackers, worms, and viruses, the growing fear factor in the average organization, and a general lack of security expertise opened the market wide for information security consultants around the world. Basically, anyone who had ever touched a firewall or read about encryption could be gainfully employed in information security as a consultant.

Today, just about every consulting organization has an information security practice and a plethora of security offerings for customers. Security consultants bring in a high rate, equivalent to that of high-end networking, storage area consulting, ...