i work for a in network security and 95% of the time any firewall regardless of the vendor is barely configured correctly.
This is so true. So often it is a shitty network admin that couldn't get something to work so they just made huge holes. I have see rule sets that were super selective in permitting services and destinations, then having a permit any rule at the end because "SAP updates were not working and that fixed it."
I'm was a developer but it works the same way in network security, managers do not know what they are hiring, they think one security professional is the same as all the others. It's pathetic. Hiring talent matters as much in the security field as it does on the football field, if someone was to say all Quarterbacks were at the same skill level it would be thought of as hilarious, yet that is how managers think about IT staff.
That is the main reason why I left IT, got so tired of working with incompetent, lazy fools.
Same here I got tired of making cool shit, and our company getting bought out by a richer company who brings in a team of boneheads to fuck it all up. Moved into healthcare.
This is so true. So often it is a shitty network admin that couldn't get something to work so they just made huge holes. I have see rule sets that were super selective in permitting services and destinations, then having a permit any rule at the end because "SAP updates were not working and that fixed it."
I'm was a developer but it works the same way in network security, managers do not know what they are hiring, they think one security professional is the same as all the others. It's pathetic. Hiring talent matters as much in the security field as it does on the football field, if someone was to say all Quarterbacks were at the same skill level it would be thought of as hilarious, yet that is how managers think about IT staff.
That is the main reason why I left IT, got so tired of working with incompetent, lazy fools.
Same here I got tired of making cool shit, and our company getting bought out by a richer company who brings in a team of boneheads to fuck it all up. Moved into healthcare.