Security of data demand, well-Philadelphia Inquirer

Aaron Weaver works in the basement of his Pittsburgh households to the Internet for something safer.

In its capacity as a specialist information security are in such demand that his employer, Pearson Education, let him work from home, after the company said that he would move the education publishing in Colorado, when it hired him.

The increasingly frequent reports of big companies such as Google, DuPont, GE, and Johnson and Johnson of hackers field career "infosec" grow "as fast as the online calculation," said Weaver, 33.

How new technologies, security threats, said David Foote, CEO and co-founder of Foote partners, l.l.c., in Vero Beach, Florida, which carries out independent research on information technology (IT) jobs.

"It's a blessing and a curse," he said, adding: "It is nothing to work in safety."

In 2007, the expenditure on security as a percentage of operating company to 7.2 percent was, said Foote. By 2010, increased by 13.5 per cent.

Weaver, a married father of three, he graduated from Bob Jones University in the year 2000 in the field of graphic design, but later was computer science.

"Frankly, it wasn't so much money in graphic design," said Weaver, who was born in Quakertown, but grew up in Kenya.

As a specialist security Pearson Education, a global publisher of print and online educational materials, Weaver is working to ensure the security of Web applications related to online teaching and for the protection of user data, for example, the results of the study and a student-teacher interaction.

He shall also ensure that the company is in compliance with a wide range of privacy laws and regulations.

Weaver may seek from the numerous examples of security needs to catch up with the high pace of new technology.

Think your smartphone and all those nifty mobile application, trust, your personal information.

Think about "cloud computing" and how it is moved, many of what were you doing in the online services, computer, physical such as saving the photos.

Think about the regulations governing the security of the information which differ from State to State and nation to nation. "Global companies need experts in all regions and what can and cannot do," said Weaver, "".

Information security is not only computers, networks and databases.

Security needs with technological advances in the cars, which will soon be transmitting status reports by e-mail, or smart meters that communicate information about household electricity use, said Ed Schlesinger, head of the electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

"And in the process of recycling and disposal, is security," he said, referring to the personal data left on the devices, which are discarded.

Just last week, the controller of the State of New Jersey announced a major problem-almost a third State of computers that are ready for sale by public auction still contains social security numbers, health records and documents of the abuse of children.

Corporate executives on bad publicity, the company suffer, their data, in particular, their customers, they are attacked or stolen.

"It may take over the company, the whole tag," Foote said.

Even firms whose expertise is Internet security is not immune. Consider the example of HBGary federal, which was an attack hacker activist group Anonymous rocked last month.

When the Washington firm Executive, Aaron Barr, has threatened to reveal the identity of the anonymous members, the group struck.

Hackers broke into a network of California company and stole tens of thousands of e-mails, which were published on-line. After the embarrassment of Barr announced his resignation.

Even greater story is how WikiLeaks disconnected visitors confidential American military and diplomatic documents into the public domain, showing that information security is more important than ever before.

Dice.com, the national work listing pages for information technology professionals, has more than 1300. the security of information places listed-an increase of 54 percent from this time last year, said Tom Silver, Senior Vice President for the cube.

Related Articles