Well, NtwkGestapo comes from a chance meeting I had once a few years back. I'm in Information Security and have been, officially, for about 10-11 years.... Even before that time, I was the "guy" who said "No, You can't do that, it would put the company at risk"... Nowadays, I have both a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and a CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certifications (I've now proven, more than once, that, YUP, I AM Certifiable!
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To fully explain the NtwkGestapo...
A few (8-9) years ago, my local IT manager asked me, as a favor to her, to look @ a fairly high-level manager's laptop PC (he'd talked to the "PC helpdesk" and gotten no resolution to his issues). I looked @ it, determined that the poor Thinkpad had "seen better days" and told the support group to replace the laptop ASAP (the manager was leaving on an international trip that afternoon and really needed his PC for the trip). A few hours later I checked back in with him to verify that he'd been taken care of. He said that it had and wanted to know which manager to thank. That's when I told him that I wasn't a PC support person, that I was in InfoSec and had just done this as a favor to the local IT manager (I wasn't even part of the local site, but was part of "headquarters staff"). One of his direct report managers was in the office and, upon hearing that I was in InfoSec, declared that "OH, You're the Network Gestapo!" (at that time, ONE of the functions I performed was to manage our "SMUT Filtering" software, the software that prevented people from going to undesirable sites, i.e. Playboy.com and others of that ilk). The name stuck! Now I've totally bored folk!
Steve C.
I'm having an out of coffee experience!
LMWDP # 164
) I was signing up for a CoffeeGeek membership and "OMG I've gotta come up with a handle. What's something I can remember? Let's see... Rapid City (home town)... Rapid Coffee... I can remember that!" And it stuck.
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