MOVING ON!

Hi all reader! (if they are)

I had moved my blog to the new place now and i'm probably not going to maintain this blog anymore. Please do visit my new blog with new post (also all previous post from here too) at:

WWW.AKRAMABDULRAHMAN.COM


See you guys there!

:P

MC For 2 Days

I got MC for 2 days starting yesterday 11/11 and today due to my eyes got infection. Yes, my eyes was so RED and my wife asked me to see the doctor. So, here i am blogging from my bedroom. Actually i got work to do today at office which is to accept delivery and monitor the installation of 2 units Avaya Phone, how ever, i'll postpone it to tomorrow evening.

In the process of recovering.

:|

Google Wave!

Google wave is so cool! I think when it's open to everyone, it can beat Facebook down! Enjoy the screenshot of my googlewave preview! I'll surely give a positive feedback to the team!

Thanks to Bro Trew for the invitation! It takes only 24 hours to get the invitation, hehe.

:)

Gym Facilities

There's a gym facilities available in my office building at the ground floor (lobby) specially for staff use only. After a month working here, today i got a brave (haha) to try those facilities. Lucky at lunch time, no body using it and only me alone there. Quite impressive with the facilities even though it just a small room, sufficient enough for me. I try to target at least twice a week to do the work out. Excited since this is the first time the company i've join got gym facilities. I remembered i've joined gym membership last time at Fitness First when i worked with SCAN (before married, haha). The fees was quite expensive and now i got a privileged as a staff to use gym for free. Excited gila! Orang lain biasa2 je, haha!



Now i feel FRESH!

p/s: the quality of the piccas not good since i'm just using my phone.

:P

How's Cool!

Finally, last 2 days, i got a reminder to collect a package at post office Sg. Besi and i wonder what, yes, my book ordered from Amazon.com has arrived and yesterday before go to work, i go there to collect it. Yey! After a year i want to own it, read here.

New update in my family about technology:

1. My mom got her own facebook page. You can find the page here.

2. My dad has build his own blog from blogspot, well actually not for him self but for our legacy from Arwah datuk, Hj. Bulang bin Suboh. You can find it here.

It's great to see that my mom and dad is catching the latest trends for social networking nowdays. cool huh!

:)

Currently: Books I Read

Currently, i'm reading : Security Monitoring:Proven Methods for Incident Detection on Enterprise Networks ebook. Very easy to understand and a good concept too.

I also waiting for book from Amazon.com to arrived at my doorstep which was i bought : Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning (Paperback) probably will arrive around mid of November. This is my first try to buy a book from Amazon.com. Hopefully it will arrive safely and still in good condition. I try to search this books from local bookstore, unfortunately, seems it doesn't enter Malaysian market yet, or i'm missing the store? Never mind.


And now, i'm enjoyed playing with GPS Garmin XT installed in my phone E66 with cost of RM0.

:)

How: Hiring New S.A?

How to hire security analyst?

Well, I've got few problems here. How to hire new SA? Well, i have few candidates that potentially can work with me together build the new SOC. However, the problems are:

1. They absolutely experienced in shift work, however if they want to change the work environment, they would not want to work on shift anymore.

2. They absolutely experienced and now they want to demand the salary. Their end basic salary was quite high now days and if the company just offer them few hundreds only, would they consider? of course no!

3. Right now they might be in the level of manager/head/senior, would they want to join an MNC company with few hundreds of increment but as Security Engineer doing the task of SA? I don't think so.

4. HR of the company is not clearly describe the offer even though the hiring manager already state what is the benefits/base salary they can offer to the candidate. This could make the candidate confuse whether to join in or take off.

5. I also have a few friends that i confirm can work as SA with shift environment and without any problem to accept the offer, but i don't think they can perform and personally, their technical skill is quite low and their effort is none, duh! Hopefully if I'm desperate enough to hire them, they can change.

6. I'm not sure how to find a new candidate that have security knowledge and experienced and have a good attitude. Anyone want to try?

So, can somebody advice me how to overcome those problems?

However, if you are a security guy - a packets monkey - part of CIRT before - have a knowledge in networks, OS (Linux/UNIX/Windows etc), security - have a good attitude - willing to learn new things - fast learner - got passion in it - willing to share the knowledge - willing to work on shift 12 hours rotation - want to work with MNC company, you can send your CV to me at akramabdulrahman[at]gmail[dot]com. I will review your CV and i will try my best to fwd it to my boss for interview session if you've been shortlisted. There is not promise but i'll try my best.

Good luck!

:)