New comment by aurinsomnia in "Tell HN: Information security audit / consulting is largely a scam industry"

aurinsomnia — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 04:50:14 +0000

I am close friends with someone who has been an IT/Cybersecurity Auditor for several years now and is apparently doing well (receiving praise/bonuses from upper management recently), despite on multiple occasions demonstrating they lack basic technical knowledge and don't understand what they are auditing. Apparently they just have a list of questions they ask and then fill out a spreadsheet despite having no technical understanding of what they are asking; e.g. on multiple occasions this person has said to me that they don't understand the difference between a server and a database. It boggles my mind that someone can be responsible for auditing a company when they don't understand simple concepts like servers or databases, but who am I to judge?

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