Ayoi’s

Last few weeks I did a presentation on our department general work flow. I’ve prepared some presentation slides, some handouts indicates the work flow (I try my best to be as clear as possible) and everything was fine at that time. Soon afterward one of my colleagues complained that it seems that the stakeholders affected in the work flow either did not understand partially on my presentation or totally clueless on that. Hence I end up scratching my heads trying to figure out what went wrong (No wonder my CSO is having lesser hair )

To be honest, I am totally clueless on how to motivate this stakeholders. They are the critical elements in our department and of cause their needs are the highest priority even in my list as well. Sometimes I am puzzled by this condition, what do they want actually?

Trainings? I’ve tried to conduct a series of training before but it turned out that most of my audience are from other department which I am grateful but deep inside a lil bit disappointed. I did ask via email on the type of training that they might required but alas, no response.

Environment? To be honest, I’ve worked in 8 companies before and so far this is the best working environment I ever had (besides few down points but hey, every company has their own problem rite?). We have experts here (Not saying about me) and this company encourages learning environment, knowledge sharing and skills enhancement.

Recently the company performed an exercise of restructuring the salary which IMO involve this stakeholders. Some of them now perhaps even getting more than what I earned. So I think this monetary factor can be discounted as well. Or maybe not.

IMO, to be success or to progress in this field, you need to have the right attitude (I think it applies to other field of works as well). Right attitude in sense of what?

The first thing is passionate about the job.

IF you accept this job just for the sake of having a job then it won’t suit you at all. Even a structured work like accounting, you still need to have the passion. Yes accounting has its own process, its own goal but to produce the final accounts statement is not that easy. For a start just stop using the accounting application and try to produce the final accounts manually. Try to produce the Balance Sheet, the Profit and Loss account and yeah the Cash flow statement without using the application. You still need to adhere the accounting policy that your company used like the depreciation policy, the FRS (Financial Reporting Standards), the SSAP (Statement of Standard Accounting Practice). Not to mention on taxation calculations, window dressing etc. Easy?

So how about being a security analyst? Easy? IMHO, the title itself requires the person to have adequate knowledge and skills in security plus you need to keep yourselves update with the current trend and technologies. Some people said doing the job is lacking hands on approach. I can’t see anything more hands on than being an analyst. Like me, from time to time I’ll study the attacks from its methodology to the impacts that it may caused by performing simulations on my *ehem old *ehem laptop and its codes (if possible). From there I will perhaps build appropriate detection mechanism (if yet available in current IDS rules), and also it can assists me when performing incident handling via advising a proper contaiment or eradication and remediation process and steps to the client.

Also from time to time I will study the current and future technology that might be useful for our future solutions and developments.

Again if you keep giving excuses on performing your tasks, perhaps you should ask yourselves whether you are in the right profession because for me, it doesn’t matter what you want to be, if you don’t have the right attitude, don’t have the career goals then perhaps you will going nowhere.

Because if this guy with only SPM as his paper credential can do it, why can’t you?

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