RE: CISSP

[Peter Lukas <plukas () oss uswest net>]

Well, if a CISSP objects too much to the depth and breadth of the
material(s) covered in the exam, they can always earn extra CPE's and
write some questions of their own! Of course, that nullifies one's ability
to whine about the exam later on (which, the carnie code forbids once
you've been given the secret handshake anyway)...

Peter Lukas

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, R. DuFresne wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Baumann, Sean C. wrote:
>
> > You must also take into account that the CISSP is not just
> > technical knowledge, but also management and organizational (policy,
> > disaster recovery, law, etc) knowledge that MANY people who are so called
> > "wizards" have never been exposed to.
>
> It's for this very reason that my feelings on CISSP certs are they are far
> too braodly based and perhaps should be more catgorical.  Security
> engineers should not be lawyers, and only occasionally management
> oriented, should they decide to take that track professionally.  The guys
> in the trenches, administering the policies laidout by upper manegment
> should have the skills and tools and understanding to to that, it's enough
> of a job for them and they already wear far too many hats on the job as it
> is.  My job is to secure amd maintain systems not worry about how many
> cameras are watching folks in the restrooms and such, nor worring about
> the companies lawyers job<s>.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
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