Hi, I am attending college and have also been thinking about the same thing. Working in IT is find and dandy and good for aquiring skill, and getting to know your stuff. But when it comes down to it. Won't most employeers want you do have some sort of education behind what you say? Ok, say. I've been in IT for 5 years. I have my CCNA my CCNP A+ and really know the in's and outs of a system. I highly dout it that anyone would want to hire me for security of any type. but say i attened a college and took a 2-3 year course lets say in Computer law or computer security investigation or network security. Would'nt that greatly Improve my chances in aquiring a job in the security feild after i had some basic IT skills. Tell me if I am wrong, most security people out there now a days are old time computer people that have been at security for years and know there stuff from practice. It hard now a days for us, new "kids" on the block to get into these types of carreries cause frankly there is no formal educaiton center set up the really teach you anything and learning it on your own takes way to long because security is such a massive field now adays with the worlds growing technology where would anyone start. Most schools i have attended for security will just give you a text book tell you to read it give you a few tests and tell you common scence things like, uses good passwords. change them, install this software IDS and won't give you the foggiest idea how any of it works. This site is the only place i have found that actually tells you how things work and actually whats going on behind the scence. Does anyone know a school or a course more then a few weeks long that can give you the in deepth knowledge that is need in todays security world? and if so PLEASE tell me...I won't greatly apprichiate it..