Computer Forensic…Computer Investigation…Forensic Cases…

It is always about some geek wearing old style clothes,

3-days beard, glazing eyes, lots of half eaten pizza remains around, empty

cans of beer scattered around and a refrigerator that looks like the dump bucket.

And then a beautiful young lady knocks on the door, asking for help

in her X-files type of investigation.

Our geek hero always knows how to get the critical data of the disks, camera

phone, printer, remote server, whatever.

Our hero knows how to break in, decrypt, analyze, summarize, save the girl

in the last moment from a crashing car, and drink some more beer.

Computer Crime resolved. End of Forensic Case.

But those days information is much more in a new set of locations…

Facebook, linkedin, twitter, web hosting sites, wordpress.com and

a bunch of other social media sites and services.

Well, our Hero says as he swallows another pizza, it is all out there!

All the information is there…anyone can look into web2.0 data…that’s

the whole thing about Web2.0.

Well…not sure about easy…that is why;

• People can have many identities
• Each Web 2.0 has a separate privacy policy
• Each Web2.0 service maintains or backups data differently
• It is easier to frame somebody innocent using Web2.0
• Web 2.0 data changes, moves and morphs all the time
• Web 2.0 data takes too much space to handle
• There are traffic limitations in trying to extract data
• Web 2.0 services are not stable in some cases
• You are messing not only with the service provider…you could be messing with the community

And on top of all that .. imagine how a public persona Computer Crime investigation over

web2.0 properties would look like to the Web2.0 community and providers…they

might see it as a major risk to their own well being and existence…

Nevertheless, Web 2.0 Computer Forensics use against Computer Crime is a field

all of us should look into more carefully.

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IT Courses or IT Training allow higher IT Professional Salary and self fulfillment?

What are the terms for a good job and Salary ?

I would aim first at the jobs that have the highest salaries
as well as the biggest lack of professionals.
You can find this information in the library or on technical forums
and publications on the internet.

Make a list of such jobs.
Don’t worry if you know nothing about this job type.
That’s because you can learn and succeed in any jobs you will aim
for if you really like what it involves in.

Make a list of such jobs you are considering.

To select a good job off your list, score it
according to those characteristics:

1. You like the job and find it interesting
You should talk with friends or make friends with
people that do the job type you are considering.
Talk with people who are successful, so you do
not have to filter any bad feelings they have
if they are not successful.
As them about the challenges they have and how
they had resolved them.

Go to the library and browse through magazines
so you can have wider prospective about what
this jobs involves.

Join Forums on the internet and look for more
information.

Select the company in your vicinity and call
their technical department.
Ask for the manager of the team type that you aim
for. Tell them you have high appreciation for
their company and job and that you want to get
their advice on learning this job type.
Invite them to lunch and interview them.
Ask them what knowledge and experience areas
you will have to acquire to be able and work in
the jobs you want, with what you should start
and what are the important required skills
for success in this kind of job.

2. The Salary and other benefits are appealing

Review Salary and benefit reports on the
internet.
Look at the last 2 years.

Make a prioritized list of the benefits you
desire the most and the maximum Salary these
jobs can offer for a starter.

Write down the time and salary you would like
to have as soon as you become an expert in that
job type.

Try and think which IT Courses or IT Training you will need

At future postings I will advise on what are
my ideas for each of the IT job types, so you
will not have to go too far to ask for such
advise

3. You feel great about the value this job brings to your customers
Some People will say it’s important to have
a title that you appreciate.
Deep in your heart you may seek for a title
that you dearest (Mom, Dad, Wife, Husband) may
find as honorable.

I say – shoot for a value that you can offer
that makes you feel good. Most chances you will
succeed there much better and this will trigger
higher salary and promotions.

Focus on bringing value and forget about honor
and appreciation will seek you out.

4. The knowledge you acquire will be a stepping stone in your road map.
Make sure what is the ultimate job you would like
to have.
Then you should find out what jobs and skills
are required to get your dream job and
work on each one of them.
Don’t hurry.
Do each job at the best way possible. Become
the best expert in that skill set and then
leverage your reputation to get the next job.

Use self learning to get knowledge for the next
job. Grab opportunities to provide service
in your new skill set for free and using
your after work hours. Then as you get
experience you can ask officially doing tasks
in the new job area.

Here is an example for you:

If you know Unix Sys Admin and want to be a DBA,
learn DBA in your spare time.
Assist DBAs doing simple mundane tasks for them
on your free time.
Then as you get experience and people know you
you can ask to get a part job as DBA.
This will allow you eventually to get a DBA job
offer.

5. The company you are considering is highly appreciated or has very good prospect to become such
Read reports about the best companies.
Listen to web casts offered by those companies.
Ask friends.
Join IT forums and get friends at the companies
you aim for and ask their advise.
Offer assistance and in turn get advice about their companies.

Stay tuned for more nuggets soon…Anyway, it is not only about IT Training or IT Courses

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Here is a post I have written some time ago, and left it on some forgotten blog.

Now I am reusing it to get our teeth chewing a bit at a nice subject

Every one is concerned about privacy – right ?

Its the right thing to do. And rightfully so.

Any web site you enter gives you the privacy speech, just before you give away your details.

Every one wants you to know they do their best to protect your privacy.

But is this really working for your best interest?

Sure, you don’t want some people to know what you are up to, here and their.

You don’t want any crazy people be able to track you down.

But looking at this from the other way around – it actually means ANYONE

you are in contact with, could be exactly that bad person you didn’t want to have any deal with,

at the first place.

Why ? Because he has his privacy protected, just as you do.

Staying just their, at the other side of the mirror, another option arises.

Maybe if we have each one of us identified very accurately, we could know who we are dealing with…

Maybe if we could create groups including only people and companies that are identified dropping

all that privacy mambo jumbo, we could have our email infrastructure automatically filter any SPAM it gets…

Maybe if we know whom we are buying from at eBay, we can feel more confident of the person behind that virtual store…

Maybe if we knew who is really on the other side of the ICQ chat, we could feel our kids are safer…

Take a look at projects such as http://openid.net/ and http://www.trustplus.com/

I believe they are pointing in that right direction…

When all of us have an identity on the net,as we do when we go shopping in the

Supermarket near our home, it will bring the internet to many more people.

They will feel safer.

Cause when they go shopping in the near by mall, they can choose to buy from someone they know.

Sure, anyone you meet on the real world can have a dark side you are not aware of.

But dealing with people on the internet who have no identity, is like buying from a person

at the mall who has his face covered with a mask.

Yep, there is money to be made here. If you have any doubt, pick any of the recent research people

showing how many persons are afraid to do their purchases online.

Yes the number online shoppers is increasing, but there are yet too many who are in fear of getting scammed.

And even those of us who are living on the internet know: we are not as much safe as we would like to be.

Is having real identity going to solve all our problems ?

Nope – having people identified, does not provide us with 100% security in the real world as well.

But why should we give up this security measure on our new way of leaving – on the internet.

And when someone does not want to identify himself on the internet, that’s fine.

We simply do not have any deal with him.

When this person finishes his private business he can make use of his real identity again and then

we are back in business.

So every one could be happy.

Just as in the real world.

Right ?

Do let us know what you think…

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Hi Team,

I am starting now to collect the BEST “From the Trenches IT stories”
from great IT people such as you !

So if you have the most amazing IT story to tell – please post it !

If you have a great success story, as well as a failures that you overcame and

learned from, we’d like to hear about it as well.

Its not the technical stuff that matters here, there are (too) many technical
forums…this is the opportunity to contribute Wisdom !

If you do not have a story of your own, you must have a great one on an other

IT Fellow you know (no need to mention names or companies).

The best stories will get selected to be included in a book I am writing
on How to Succeed as an IT PRO.

Waiting your great story !

Jack.

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