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Re: Help with education


From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:42:34 -0400

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

J

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:01:59 -0400 Dude VanWinkle 
<dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
On 7/17/07, Evan Pitstick <bikingnerd () comcast net> wrote:
I am looking to become a security consultant(White hat) in a few 
years
and I was looking for some advice on the best certifications to 
get,
graduate level schools and majors, and any web sites that will 
continue
to help me along my path. I am currently a student at a school 
in
Atlanta, USA for Information Security and Assurance. Any ideas?

What kind of Security do you enjoy most, Auditing, Pentesting,
Compliance, Programming? I recommend you pick the one you have fun 
at.
If you dont enjoy any of them, be prepared to be unhappy for a 
long
time :-)


As far as schools:
I hear www.gatech.edu has a really good program, and its in 
atlanta.

as far as certs:
CISSP will get you more money, but you will learn more from SANS 
certs.

If you want to be a good Security Consultant at the Technical 
level it
is important that you have a smattering of everything: programming
networking, administration, etc.. If you walk into a place and 
expect
to start telling people what to do, you should at least have 
walked a
mile in their shoes before doing so. This means learning Lotus,
Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
Windows, etc, ad infinitum.

If you want to be a great infosec person, you need to be able to 
teach
yourself. Much of the territory covered by infosec is new and
unexpected ways of using technology. This cant really be taught.

hth,

-JP

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