Re: Training advice

[Bob Ono <raono () UCDAVIS EDU>]

Teresa,
As a longer term effort, you might consider the possibility of leveraging area interest for security training. For 
example, every two years, UC Davis hosts a 2.5 day security training conference for technical administrators (see  
http://itsecuritysymposium.ucdavis.edu/). This is a break-even event, exclusive of staff time. The event this year 
hosts 50 security-related instructional labs and lectures and a registrant fee of $85. 
 
Bob  
 
Robert A. Ono, CISSP
IT Security Coordinator
University of California, Davis
530-754-6484

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From: Vanderbilt, Teresa [mailto:tvanderb () OZARKS EDU]
Sent: Mon 6/18/2007 12:01 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Training advice



I recently stepped into the title of Security Manager. We're a small school and this is a new position for us. I'd only 
maintained the servers, switches and firewalls before. I have no one to mentor me and very little budget for training. 
I can spend approximately $3-5K on formal training this year. I was thinking of a good online class so all the money 
goes toward training rather than hotels and travel. Until now, everything I've learned has been mostly on my own; 
although I recently attended Pentration Testing Training. What other training, both formal and informal, would benefit 
me and my school the most? I've been thinking of CCNA and I would like to learn how to use Snort since it's free. Will 
CCNA be beneficial or should I buy a good beginners book on Snort. Am I way off the mark for what I need to study? I 
need to get up to speed quickly and can't afford to guess at what I need. Please help.

Thanks in advance, 
Teresa Vanderbilt 
University of the Ozarks