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So months and months after initially starting toward supporting businesses, I realized that I can provide support for only those things which I'm familiar with, and farm out the stuff I don't know to other techs, instead of trying to learn almost everything.
I wonder if the same concept applies to IT security. For instance, one could provide security, penetration testing and audits for the technology they ARE familiar with, and have another person who is familiar with the stuff they don't know, do the security auditing and penetration testing on THAT stuff. Is this how it's generally done? I can't see why somebody would have to learn security for an Exchange server if the businesses he targets do not have in-house Exchange servers. But for an environment where peer to peer networking is done (mostly what I'll do for starting off), and network segment isolation is needed to some extent, I could see myself learning the INs and OUTs of security for that stuff, as an example.
I wonder if the same concept applies to IT security. For instance, one could provide security, penetration testing and audits for the technology they ARE familiar with, and have another person who is familiar with the stuff they don't know, do the security auditing and penetration testing on THAT stuff. Is this how it's generally done? I can't see why somebody would have to learn security for an Exchange server if the businesses he targets do not have in-house Exchange servers. But for an environment where peer to peer networking is done (mostly what I'll do for starting off), and network segment isolation is needed to some extent, I could see myself learning the INs and OUTs of security for that stuff, as an example.
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