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Re: CISSP Boot Camps
From: salgak () speakeasy net
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:08 +0000
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen McCauley [mailto:smccauley () cox net] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 05:10 PM To: patrickbeam () hushmail com, security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: CISSP Boot Camps There really is no way to cram 3+ years worth of security experience into 7 days of training. I suspect the CISSP boot camp will expose people to the '30 mile wide' (10 Security Domains) body of knowledge, but could only go 2 inches deep ...per domain. When I took the CISSP test, it asked questions much deeper than 2 inches per domain. They (ISC)2 REALLY don't want paper CISSP's. You can't simply pay for this cert. The concept behind any boot camp is, even if you have no experience, you can pass "the" test at the end of our boot camp. Without any actualy security industry experience, people shouldn't be able to take the test anyway. Are they screening people for the minimum experience? Also, they only have 7 days to get this infor out there. If you 'don't get' any concept, they simply press on (and there goes your test). They have a ton of material to go over.
About the only "REAL" use of a CISSP Bootcamp is for a long-time security professional to do just that: a cram prior to the test, when you don't have enough free time to put the months of study in beforehand. . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- CISSP Boot Camps Patrick Beam (Dec 12)
- RE: CISSP Boot Camps Stephen McCauley (Dec 15)
- RE: CISSP Boot Camps JM (Dec 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: CISSP Boot Camps J. Yoon (Dec 15)
- Re: CISSP Boot Camps Brian Keefer (Dec 15)
- Re: CISSP Boot Camps salgak (Dec 15)