[Sheflug] security modelling - not quite linux

[David Willington <violawillington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

I'm facing redundancy on the grounds that my current role is to be
subsumed into a new role which is 'significantly different' to my
current one. At the moment I develop and maintain external websites
and content management systems on LAMP for a school and they want
someone to do this plus internal web sites (on .NET). From fairly
harmless data protection (sports results, news item etc) it'd now
include online access for parents to school reports, billing and the
like, and the grounds on which they say the new role is significantly
different is that the security modelling is significantly different.
Clearly the data is more sensitive, but does anyone have any advice
about how much more complex the security considerations are? Is it
something that you can do a course on and get up to speed, read a book
and practice about, or does it sound like they have a valid point?

Any advice very much appreciated

Thanks
David Willington

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