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Re: Operational vs project time
From: Steve Schuster <sjs74 () CORNELL EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:31:06 -0500
I have a staff of 4 full time security engineers, a deputy and myself. The security engineers rotate primary operations responsibilities weekly while the others are then able to concentrate on project work or overflow of operations. My deputy and I throw ourselves in as needed. With all that said, I'd estimate the at least 40% of our time is spent on operations with the remaining on projects. What is changing this mix right now, however, is the new changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. sjs Steve Schuster Director, IT Security Office Cornell University sjs74 () cornell edu On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Gary Flynn wrote:
Hi, We're undergoing some internal analysis and were wondering what security groups were seeing as the proportion of time spent on operational work vs project work. By operational work, I mean recurring things like responding to calls, access requests, infections, incidents, training and presentations, daily monitoring and response tasks, tuning, upgrades, and the like. By project work, I mean things like providing new internal or external services and development. Projects may be internal projects to improve security functions ( e.g. network anomaly detection ), external projects providing security services to external parties ( e.g. WSUS server ), or interdepartmental projects where security personnel participate in the project planning, design, management, and possibly implementation on an ongoing basis ( e.g. portal, identity management, new university system rollouts ). We're currently estimating 60-70% of our time going to operational tasks and wondered what others were seeing. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
Current thread:
- Operational vs project time Gary Flynn (Oct 30)
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- Re: Operational vs project time Crawford, Tim M. (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time Philip Webster (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time James Moore (Oct 30)
- Re: Operational vs project time Steve Schuster (Nov 01)