Aaron Weaver works in the basement of his Pottstown home making the Internet a little safer. His skills as an information-security specialist are in such demand that his employer, Pearson Education, let him work from home after he told the education-publishing firm he wouldn't relocate to Colorado when it recruited him.
With increasingly frequent reports of big companies such as Google, DuPont, GE, and Johnson & Johnson being targeted by hackers, the "infosec" career field is growing "as fast as online computing is expanding," said Weaver, 33.

As new technologies spread, so do the security threats, said David Foote, CEO and cofounder of Foote Partners L.L.C., in Vero Beach, Fla., which conducts independent research on information technology (IT) jobs.

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