Good guy looking for job

[Talamanca]

I have done everything from being the general manager of a family of sites (not sportsbooks but casino/other egaming ventures)

For the last 4 years I was involved in the technical field mainly, servers management, integration of new payment systems, monitoring/securing servers, database administrator also worked as coordinator of the technical team to get the developers to do what was necessary

Right now taking curses in network security, looking for a job that can provide an interesting challenge and where I would be able to use the egaming knowledge I have acquired in the last 5 years (Soon to be six years of egaming exp)

If you have a suitable position please drop me a line at morgancr21@hotmail.com

 

[AdamSelene]

"curses" in network security, lol. Yeah, done that too. :umn:

 

[Talamanca]

Ok more specific, its the SECUR and the CSPFA cisco courses that lead to the CCSP certification

Certifications by themselves are nothing (merely a piece of paper) but if you have the experience it validates it and if you are just starting it doesnt hurt as a starting point , does it? :howdy:

Cisco certs (and the SANS GIAC) are still regarded as something useful (unlike the Microsoft ones that you find in the Kellogs boxes)

 

[AdamSelene]

Btw, I was just making a joke. I regularly curse about network security.

Anyway, become an expert in anti-DDOS and high availability strategies and I'm sure you can find work.

There was a company here specializing in that -- "Digital Defense" -- but I believe they moved most operations to Florida.

 

[Talamanca]

Sorry Adam, I caught the joke a little too late, damn typo in my original post :toothless

DDoS is interesting indeed, I think the guys you refer to have changed their name to prolexic (cooler name I guess?)

Their way to deal with them is effective but I think its not a real solution, I mean, they deal with the attack in two ways, 1) they have a HUGEEEEEEEEE pipe that proxies requests to the sites behind their proxy 2) they also have a way to detect/ black hole IPs that are known to be taken place in the attack

I supose the 100k that they apparently charge must have a high % due to the fat pipe that they need to have in order to withstand the attacks

I would love to see an actual tcpdump of packets during an attack but I have the strong feeling that by now they have perfected their packets to emulate to the last bit the requests of a browser trying to display the page so I guess its too late to come up with a "clever" way to identify the attacks