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

["sk / GroundZero" <fd-list () g-0 org>]

lol this explains why the us-gov seems to be constantly hacked according to
news repports..
and their own tests on cyber security are always bad year after year even
though they spend so
much money on it. if i was living in the usa i would worry where my tax
money goes, but i guess
we all know where it goes lets not get political.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>
To: "'wilder_jeff Wilder'" <wilder_jeff () msn com>;
<sk () groundzero-security com>; <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: RE: [lists] Re: [Full-disclosure] IT security professionals in
demand in 2006


> 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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