I N F O R M A T I O N S E C U R I T Y A N A L Y S T COOL STEM CAREERS CHAPTER ONE DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET 4 CHAPTER TWO GETTING THE JOB 12 CHAPTER THREE A DAY IN THE LIFE 18 CHAPTER FOUR LOOKING AHEAD 24 SOME WELL-KNOWN INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYSTS 29 GLOSSARY 30 FOR MORE INFORMATION 31 INDEX 32 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 32 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Information security analysts keep a close eye on Internet use at their companies COOL STEM CAREERS INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST 2 1 S T C E N T U R Y S K I L L S L I B R A R Y CHAPTER ONE DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET Eric is sitting in his office Computer monitors are all around him But only one has his attention this morn ing He’s been watching it a lot over the last few weeks
The company Eric works for is worth billions of dollars It has dozens of divisions thousands of products and offices all over the world Eric works at the company’s main headquar ters This means the most powerful people in the company work in the same building as he does Eric’s boss has been very nervous lately She believes that someone inside the company has been stealing secrets about a new product they’ve been developing The product could earn the company billions of dollars in profit Those billions will be lost if she’s right She’s been pushing Eric to find out if her suspicions are true Eric has told her to be patient But her patience is starting to run out He keeps his eyes trained on that one monitor waiting and hoping And then it suddenly happens An identification code pops up on the screen The code is a sequence of numbers separated by a few periods here and there Eric knows exactly what it means He picks up the phone and calls his boss Then he places another call After that he bolts out of his office and hurries down the hallway Two burly men in suits join him when he reaches the corner There are other people around They are unsure of what’s going on They step aside as the three men rush past Eric’s boss seems to appear out of nowhere and trails close behind At the end of the hall Eric and the two men reach the door to one of the bathrooms They burst in It doesn’t seem
