RE: [lists] Re: IT security professionals in demand in 2006

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

Jeff Wilder sent:
> Not to validate the cissp... but try to get a good security 
> job with out it. 

I agree Jeff, for some reason it is considered the gold standard, though not
sure why.  Never took a class, studied a single book for a week and knocked
it out in half the 6-hour time period.  The SANS GIAC certs were much more
technical and absolutely required the classes.

I describe the CISSP as a river a mile wide and 6 inches deep, and the SANS
certs as a hundred yards wide and 30 feet deep.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. 
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke 

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
Information Security Officer

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