Computer Security is without doubt one of the most important areas in Information Technology. IT's main objective was to help us to doour wok faster , Internet's main objective was to have access to information. But while the monster's (INternet) growth was so fast no one was aware on how important will be to be safe inside this chaos. This situation is now visible to everyone since we trust no one and in the WEB. Many Academic and Commercial groups are now trying to create standards or to implement techniques which will protect everyone. But how can you protect users when you cannot control their acts.

The race between private and public research can prove that people are trying to get involved.

Thats why I believe that at this time is a good idea to attend a postgraduade or Undergraduate degree in this field.

IT Security can be splitted into two areas : Communication safety and Information Safety. Before entering The IT Security world you need to choose a team. After doing that you have to choose your position inside these two directions , Security Expert or Illegal Security Expert . A real life representation is be a police man or be a criminal ? Although both of these directions are challenging you need to have different characteristics to join them.

Security Expert : Positives => Access to very expensive equipment Negative => You don't know your enemy's techniques or tools but he does know yours.

Illegal Security Expert : Positive => Freedom to act / You know your victims tools Negative => You have to do another job to feed your self and you do not have access to top level technology.

After making your mind about the above you can use the following Academic list of security groups and choose which one of them better fits your needs.