Re: CISSP Boot Camps

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> -----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. .



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