The security industry is small, and always changing - that's one of my favorite parts about this industry. Where else could I work for a consulting company, an IDS company, a vulnerability management company, and a security risk management and compliance company over the course of six years of my career, and never leave one company? :)
Except that there are always times for new beginnings. And this will be my last post on the nCircle blog, because I'm off to a new beginning myself. I'm returning to the customer side of the world, going off to help a big company protect its customers and its network from the bad guys directly.
I have been incredibly proud to lead this team of amazing engineers (and even more amazing people) over the past few years - they are superstars with brilliant thoughts and the ability to become leaders in the industry.
Of course, my blogging won't end. I have re-opened my own personal blog at my website - I'm looking forward to continuing the dialogs on this blog from my own soapbox.
Please check it out.
Comments (1)
I think Tom Peters said it best: "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
Mike Murray will be missed for sure. But these days with the hyper communication of Blogs, IM, Skype, and so on, will I even have a chance to miss Mike? There are days where I speak to ex-employees just as much as I would have when they worked with me. We all remain on our IM list, silc channels, RSS feed and everything else.
The security industry is small but it is the immaturity of the space that makes it change at such a high rate. If you don't love change, this is not the journey for you. Companies that don't respond to the changing markets die. Both Murray and I thrive in change.
Another thing Murray and I have in common is the flip flop between working as a vendor, then customer, then vendor, then customer, and so on. I have a theory that ex-customers make better vendors of product, ex-vendors make better consumer of product.
When you work with talented people, and work on interesting problems, you develop a relationship with others that go well beyond a single company. Is there such a thing as an Old Beginning? Just kidding with you Mike. New or old, all finite games have a beginning and an end. Game on buddy.
--tk
Posted by TK | August 21, 2006 8:11 PM
Posted on August 21, 2006 20:11