Good day all. I joined just a day or so ago.
I've been in IT, at least part time, since DOS and NT Server 3.5 days, but I really 'cut my teeth' on Windows/Server 2000. Mainly did desktop stuff back then, as IT was a part time gig - I was primarily a bookkeeper/accountant, but was learning on the fly because it came to me easily and whatever I could do saved my employer HUGE bucks that they paid contractors. Went full-time IT around 2000 - yep, around the time the tech bubble burst.
Anyway - I've spent the better part of 17 years as a generalist - good at a lot, master of none. I've always enjoyed the network side of things, but I've never had much of a complex network to manage. All my networks were pretty static - just a handful of routes or a handful of VLANs. Never much more than that.
My career is actually heading down the InfoSec road - but a veteran InfoSec person I follow made the statement, that to protect a network, you need to really understand the network.
So I'm here to learn, and hopefully one day contribute.
I've been in IT, at least part time, since DOS and NT Server 3.5 days, but I really 'cut my teeth' on Windows/Server 2000. Mainly did desktop stuff back then, as IT was a part time gig - I was primarily a bookkeeper/accountant, but was learning on the fly because it came to me easily and whatever I could do saved my employer HUGE bucks that they paid contractors. Went full-time IT around 2000 - yep, around the time the tech bubble burst.
Anyway - I've spent the better part of 17 years as a generalist - good at a lot, master of none. I've always enjoyed the network side of things, but I've never had much of a complex network to manage. All my networks were pretty static - just a handful of routes or a handful of VLANs. Never much more than that.
My career is actually heading down the InfoSec road - but a veteran InfoSec person I follow made the statement, that to protect a network, you need to really understand the network.
So I'm here to learn, and hopefully one day contribute.