The National Cybersecurity Agency seeks experts with minimal experience. Gulp!
Means and moves of the National Cybersecurity Agency . The comment of Umberto Rapetto, director of Infosec news
If you intend to apply, do a rigorous examination of conscience. Are you experts? Are you sure you are not "too" expert? But isn't it that, by chance, you are just enough to exceed the fateful "minimum" threshold?
After the imperative "one is worth one", comes "one who knows little" or "one who knows less than a good person"?
Anyone who believes that dealing with cybersecurity costs years of sacrifice and enforcement is wrong. Indeed, those who think they can boast a curriculum full of important achievements, hard-earned goals, efforts to learn something new every day, do not realize that virtuous "precedents" can cost dearly to those who believe they can flaunt them with ease or document with the meticulous precision of those who keep papers and testimonies of their work.
Possible ever? Let's try to understand …
In a moment of evident geopolitical criticality and while the nefarious winds of war are blowing, there are those who reassure relatives and friends by saying that there is no risk of a cyber attack on Italy thanks to the National Cybersecurity Agency.
These relatives and friends, notoriously untrustworthy and – what is worse – tedious in wanting to verify the assertions of the spouse / acquaintance, begin to document themselves to understand the potential of the tricolor institutions.
After understanding that the cyber perimeter is not calculated with the sum of three, four or more sides, the most addicted to online research learn that the vaunted IT praetorians probably still have to be selected and enlisted….
What triggered the spring of curiosity was the announcement of Professor Baldoni, director general of the Cyber Agency, who spoke of 72 places in the competition …
On Linkedin, a job offer manages to attract the attention of even the most distracted. Among the many opportunities, that page of the social platform of those looking for a job or wanting to improve their position cannot go unnoticed.
We are looking for a “CYBERSECURITY EXPERT” and the recently established structure at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers does it. Qualification aside, what leaves everyone amazed is the requirement of "MINIMUM EXPERIENCE". This is not a joke, because just click here to be sure.
One minute break. It takes. And not to create suspense, but to recover from legitimate disbelief.
But you need an "expert" or just have a minimum experience, even just a quarter of an hour of chatting on the train with a travel companion who saw a friend install an antivirus with the help of a fairly practical uncle thanks to a tutorial on Youtube?
If someone shows up who really knows how to do something, what happens? Do they send it back home? Or they ask him / her "How dare you?"
In reality there is nothing to laugh about. Certain inevitable and inexorable findings in such a dramatic historical phase lead us to ask ourselves how it is possible to find ourselves at this point.
In the meantime, the Italian cyber defense resembles a table football whose sticks with the men have not yet been assembled or even bought. It is to be hoped that Russian hackers (or any other corner of the world with imperialist ambitions) know that the agency will not have completed the first recruitment phase until December 2023. If they decide to attack first, remember that this is not the case. It would be too convenient….
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/agenzia-cybersicurezza-nazionale-candidatura/ on Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:41:19 +0000.