Moving on

Today is my penultimate day with my present employer. It's sad to be leaving behind good friends and colleagues, but exciting to be moving into new and exciting arenas.
I will be doing a different role for my new company, moving from a security consultancy role, into a senior server engineering role. I am really looking forward to 'getting my hands dirty' again supporting live systems.

There is something challenging in the resolution of problems that tests your technical ability, resourcefulness and ability to work under pressure. I am looking forward to seeing how other firms work, how security methods differ and also comparing common problems and how different companies address them.

Unfortunately it does not look like I will be getting more experience with ISA 2004, which is a bit of a shame, as recently I have been impressed with its stability and all round robustness.
In fact in a recent conversation with my penetration testers of choice, they admitted that whenever they test against ISA, they always have difficulty circumventing it.
Of course that depends on what rules have been configured and how the inbuilt filters have been set up...