The search for good security staff: with top management giving a new focus to security, it may...

The good news: Administering standalone mainframe security is easy. The bad: Finding people skilled at securing a mainframe in a distributed environment is very hard.

Since Sept. 11, the word "security" has taken on an additional, political dimension. It's become a strategic hot-button issue for senior executives taking a long, hard and sometimes seemingly hysterical look at enterprisewide security policies and procedures. Hitherto overlooked and under-funded, security staffing is gaining new respect--and often needs to grow rapidly.

That means the number of