justfication

During my quarterly review, the boss asked me to send him information so the new position can be justified. He also warned me that he may be critical of my progress on the sguil boxen for each location during the time the auditors are here (maybe as early as next week), so we may get more justification to take JD off the help desk and slap-and-dash her into something less phone-bound.

I'm welcoming any and all comments on how to procede. I've got "Infosec Career Hacking" (don't look at me like that; it was a gift from a well-meaning person) at home, and I believe I glanced over a section of the book that dealt somewhat with that.

However, I don't speak Business, Management, Cost Effectiveness, or Six Sigma. And after this morning, I'm not sure I'm ready to be qualified as a security analyst of any type. Sure, I followed some formulae to build a firewall and Richard Bejtlich's scripts have taught me a lot about sguil, but...