This is all I found on yahoo: Computer Security Specialist
A big chunk of the ARRA money is dedicated to health-care information-technology initiatives — digitizing medical records so they're easier to transmit and share between doctors, hospitals and pharmacists. Computer-security experts who can help keep electronic medical records locked away from computer hackers and other unauthorized users will be in high demand as the health-care sector modernizes, says Laurence Shatkin, author of “Great Jobs in the President's Stimulus Plan.”
Other specialists will be needed to train workers on how to keep the data safe. A brief certificate program may suffice to get you started in this field, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says. “There's going to be a special role here of how to keep prying eyes away,” Shatkin says.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Also they can work similiar to network admins watching a network for an intrusion detection and trying to backhack the hacker to find out where he is and shut him down.
Watch the movie "Hackers", the bad guy is actually a computer security specialist who's gone bad, but what he does is what a computer security specialist might do. However of course with the movie world its made far prettier then what it really is for the "show" look.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
The term "Computer Security Specialist" is relatively vague and does not lend itself to being a credible job title. I am an IT security professional, have been for over a decade. I mostly do penetration testing and security audits. I am also my company's network administrator and a level three technician as needed. (It's a small IT services company.)
You have to clearly define the roles involved, since separation of roles is one of the cornerstones of network security.