Re: Geeks

["Fredrick Diggle" <fdiggle () gmail com>]

thank you for the qualified opinion valdis. everyone cares very much.
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:10 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:11:37 PDT, Morning Wood said:
> > > > Anybody who thinks a CISSP is a "license to hack" is dreadfully ignorant
> > > > of what little overlap there is between hacking skills and the material
> > > > covered in the CISSP.
> >
> > CISSP's cant hack
>
> Right, because the CISSP isn't about hacking. It's about risk management.
> It's about balancing the cost of adding more security to a system against
> the costs of an intrusion.  It's about the costs of testing a disaster
> recovery plan, and the costs of not having a plan.  It's about what sort
> of backup schedule you should have, and what the retention period on the
> backups should be, and why.  It's about knowing how deep a background check
> you should make on prospective employees.  It's about how much security
> awareness training the users need.
>
> Hacking is a *very small* part of the security world.
>
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