Need recommendation for network hardening specialist

[psicodude]

I'm sorry for trying to be helpful. Good luck with choosing someone off the street.

Gartner rated McAfee as the #1 solution for endpoint protection platforms in January of this year, by the way.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by CubicleGeek

This reminds me of a funny story one of our security experts told me about concerning a contract he had state side to test the hardening of a client's network. He was given an IP range from the client representing the organization's subnet - while running every known exploit and intrusion method he had on file the FBI broke down his hotel room door. Apparently, the numbers they gave him were off by one digit and he spent the entire morning bombarding a government site.

He didn't get a job for life, but he did get it cleared up and didn't end up in Guantanamo Bay.

Seems like a process that you'd want to do an IP lookup for before you started

[FlamingLonghorn]

www.secureworks.com

(disclaimer:I work for Dell) Dell acquired these guys over a year ago and seem to be rated highly in the Managed Security industry. In addition to managed security they also do consulting and testing. They are a separate division then I work in so I don't know a whole lot about them, but I thought I would throw them out there. A lot of the financial clients I talk to have them for managed security and rave about them. I also don't know how much they cost for just assessments/testing. As stated before they are in a separate division from me so I wouldn't be getting compensation on any of this, I just know they are very highly thought of in the industry.