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RE: Checkpoint Question
From: hermit1 <hermits () mac com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:49:00 -0700
Pick your class carefully! I took a class a couple of years ago after I had been working with FW-1 for a month or two. The instructor gave us the course materials that consisted mainly of photocopies of the slides he showed, and he read the slides to us. I got the feeling he was learning the material at the same time.
hermit At 07:26 PM 4/20/00 -0400, Cannella, Michael (ISS Southfield) wrote:
<Caveat>I teach the Checkpoint classes sometimes.</caveat> Like many questions about security, the answer to this one is: "it depends." A few questions to consider: -How important is having the firewall up and working in a hurry to you/your organization? Tight security firewall a high priority? The vast majority of people can get it up and effective a lot more quickly by taking the course. -Will you be "allowed" to dedicate the required time at work to the firewall? -Will inoperative NAT or VPN cost you money?The cost of the class is often cheap compared to the cost of being down....You _can_ get the information on your own that you would get in the classes, and it's all available free on the internet. But how much do you know about firewalls to start with? How much time will you really have at work to lock yourself away with the firewall and get comfortable with it. How many archived FW1 list posts do you want to sort through? Like Chris, I have issues with the courseware. Some people don't learn well in a classroom environment. And not all instructors are created equal. But as I tell my students, even with a bonehead like me teaching, at the very least the courses give you a combined four days in a lab with pseudo-real-world conditions--time enough to:--try a lot of different settings and configurations without real-world repercussions, --get familiar with the firewall, the gui, all of its features (even the ones nobody uses)In a typical class, lots of people make lots of mistakes--an observant student will realize that these mistakes and the symptoms they cause are valuable troubleshooting experience for the real world.
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- Re: Checkpoint Question Aaron Turner (Apr 19)
- RE: Checkpoint Question Robert Lupo (Apr 20)
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- Re: Checkpoint Question Antonomasia (Apr 20)
- Re: Checkpoint Question Rogue Bolo (Apr 20)
- RE: Checkpoint Question Cannella, Michael (ISS Southfield) (Apr 21)
- RE: Checkpoint Question hermit1 (Apr 26)
- RE: Checkpoint Question Marcus Goncalves (Apr 24)
- RE: Checkpoint Question Oxenreider, Jeff (Apr 27)