Building useful security infrastructure for free
Brad Lhotsky · 2011
Working as a Security Engineer for a research program in the Federal government is a lot of fun, but incredibly challenging. Research, rightfully, receives the lion’s share of funding, leaving very little for support services like IT and no funding for security specific activities. However, the burden of designing, implementing, analyzing, and reporting compliance to weighty government IT Security mandates like FISMA falls squarely on the IT section.