Re: survey results, part 2

[acli@acli.interlog.com]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:50:45 -0500 (EST), in article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980303091306.6665P-100000@roadrunner.realbig.com>, Andy Poling  <andy@globalauctions.com> wrote:
>Many self-proclaimed SA's are such in their own minds only.
>
>I'm sorry if that sounds mean, but you did ask for it.  :-)

Am I a self-proclaimed SA? Sure I am. I didn't even *think* myself as
an SA, before about a year ago. And I have never held a job title of
"system administrator".

Then I came across SAGE's job descriptions and found that what I do is
actually SA work.

So I say I am an SA now though my job title is not, so I am by definition
a self-proclaimed SA. But am I one only in my own mind? I probably won't
even assertively say I can do a good SA job if I were to change jobs
tomorrow.  But as it is, I can reasonably sure that I am doing SA work.

And I'd say I'm pretty sure I am not an isolated case.  I would be tempted
to say that in a typical, small PC shop, people are doing SA tasks without
realizing such.


>If you don't understand DNS then you don't properly understand TCP/IP.  And
>if you don't understand TCP/IP then you don't really understand networking.

As someone else has already pointed out, this is false. Do I understand
exactly why the various attacks work? How can anyone say they "really"
understand TCP/IP if they can't foresee all possible TCP/IP-based attacks?

And would an understanding of TCP/IP mean a real understanding of networking
in my TCP/IP + IPX + Appletalk (mostly IPX) environment at work?


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