-: You know, I think computer science
and electrical, and computer engineering
is a great starting point,
only 'cause you get to make some of the mistakes
that we're looking at exploiting in information security.
That being said, I think we've got
folks who have majored in MIS and in CIS,
and we've got, really, a variety of roles to fill
on the information security site.
We're looking for folks who are very technical,
who want to write exploits, who want to exploit devices,
but we're also looking a lot for
folks who are good at Excel.
We're looking for folks who have practical business skills
of being able to write and generate reports,
being able to report on those and really working with
the larger information technology teams
to make sure that our systems are secure.
So, we're hiring a very, very large set of skill sets,
but, you know, I would really go back to the whole,
like, do you have passion and communication?
If you've got a passion to learn
and if you're good at communicating those ideas out,
we would love to have you on our information security team.
And I think the easiest way for someone who loves computers,
wants to get into information security,
is to go to, there are a number of
security conferences in the United States.
There's many conferences right here in Minnesota,
there's many well attended conferences
in Las Vegas every year,
and I think that would be a fantastic spot
to go see if the scene is something you want to do
and to make some great connections in the industry,
and I know that's how I kinda
got my foot in the door with the industry,
was going to one of the big hacker conferences
and meeting some folks whose name you see in the news
and being able to talk with them
and realizing that they're no different than me.