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Re: OS to know.
From: Mark Owen <mr.markowen () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:16:20 -0400
On 10/11/05, John Williams <ibmros () hotmail com> wrote:
I am a graduate student at George Mason University obtaining my MS in Information Security and Assurance. What operating system is used more for security administration in the private sector versus the government sector? Pretty much I would like to know what operating system I should focus on if I wanted to pursue a government career in security or if I wanted to purse a career in the private sector. Thanks.
George Mason? Not to far from me (College Park). Our environment is pretty much a Windows Server environment with a few Linux boxes (network and desktop scenarios) Best advise I can give is to learn the MS stuff and learn how to do the same thing (LDAP vs Active Directory, IIS vs Apache or vsftp, etc) and secure in a *nix environment, or vice versa. Popular choices are SuSE, Redhat, Debian, and various BSD. Above all though, I believe you really need to learn *nix not because of it's production environment, but because of how much it can help you. tcpdump, dsniff, nessus, nmap, etc all comes in handy in tracking security concerns in any environment. -- Mark Owen
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- RE: OS to know., (continued)
- RE: OS to know. Ramki B (Oct 13)
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- Re: OS to know. Raoul Armfield (Oct 14)
- RE: OS to know. David Gillett (Oct 14)
- Re: OS to know. Cory Stoker (Oct 17)
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- Re: OS to know. crazy frog crazy frog (Oct 18)
- Re: OS to know. Josh Tolley (Oct 14)
- Re: OS to know. John Melton (Oct 17)
- RE: OS to know. Security (Oct 17)
- RE: OS to know. Ramki B (Oct 13)
- Re: OS to know. Mark Owen (Oct 14)
- Re: OS to know. Michael Gale (Oct 31)
- Re: OS to know. Adam Kane (Oct 31)
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