I’m probably at my third fat year so next year its back to Ramen noodles and open-source for our security group.

=)

Your not alone my friend, I have been fighting for weeks to hire a new team member for our SOC, and although my company is also private, we do have some compliance issues to deal with. I have taken the “you dont want to end up in the news for a breach” approach, but as you have said, this will only last so long, my trip to the CEO’s office will come again soon, and I will be forced to justify increase “insurance” spending as my company likes to call it. I never thought when i entered this field that I would ever be seen as a sleazy insurance salesman, but alas.