IT Security Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Information Security Job
- ISBN13:
9780470192474
- ISBN10:
047019247X
- Format: eBook
- Copyright: 2007-10-01
- Publisher: Wiley
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Summary
Technology professionals seeking higher-paying security jobs need to know security fundamentals to land the job-and this book will help Divided into two parts: how to get the job and a security crash course to prepare for the job interview Security is one of today's fastest growing IT specialties, and this book will appeal to technology professionals looking to segue to a security-focused position Discusses creating a resume, dealing with headhunters, interviewing, making a data stream flow, classifying security threats, building a lab, building a hacker's toolkit, and documenting work The number of information security jobs is growing at an estimated rate of 14 percent a year, and is expected to reach 2.1 million jobs by 2008
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Finding, Interviewing for, and Getting the Job | |
| Qualifications | |
| Pursuing a Degree | |
| The Perfect Job | |
| Job Search | |
| Interviewing | |
| Money Talks | |
| Accepting or Rejecting the Offer | |
| Summary | |
| Nontechnical Interview Questions | |
| Knowing Networks: Fundamentals | |
| Introduction | |
| Questions | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Knowing Security: Fundamentals | |
| Adjust Your Thinking | |
| Core Values | |
| Basic Concepts | |
| Managing Risk | |
| Data Classification and Labeling | |
| Ethics in Information Security | |
| Daily Security Responsibilities | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Understanding Regulations, Legislation, and Guidance | |
| Regulations, Legislation, and Guidance Defined | |
| Why Does an Employer Care? | |
| Why Should You Care? | |
| Government- and DoD-Specific Information | |
| Commercial Information Security | |
| Using This Information in the Interview | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Knowing Firewalls: Fundamentals | |
| Firewall Technologies | |
| Major Vendors | |
| Device Types | |
| Management | |
| Deployment Strategies | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Knowing Virtual Private Networks | |
| Goals and Assumptions | |
| The Cryptography of VPNs | |
| IP Security Review | |
| Implementing IPsec | |
| Alternatives to IPsec | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Knowing IDS/IPS/IDP | |
| Introduction | |
| Questions | |
| What Questions Do You Want to Ask Me? | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Wireless but Were Afraid They' Ask | |
| The Fundamentals | |
| Wireless Cards and Chipsets | |
| Wireless Drivers for Linux | |
| WLAN Detection (WarDriving) | |
| Wireless Security | |
| Rogue Wireless Devices | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Finding Your Posture | |
| History of Information Security | |
| Modern Information Security | |
| Security Objectives | |
| Determining the Security Posture | |
| Prioritizing the Vulnerabilities | |
| Vulnerability Management | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Tools | |
| Enumeration, Port Scanning, and Banner Grabbing | |
| Wireless Enumeration | |
| Vulnerability Scanning | |
| Password Compliance Testing | |
| Network Sniffing | |
| Penetration Testing | |
| Learning | |
| Summary | |
| Interview Q&A | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Additional Resources | |
| Index | |
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