Re: Help Convincing Employer to Pay for SANS Training

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 9 April 2013 15:19, Mike Perez <mike () pauldotcom com> wrote:

>  Volunteer for SansFire and cut the cost to $900...
It would be interesting to see a graph of how that price has gone up over
time compared to course costs, it was free when I volunteered.

Robin


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> I have already talked to my direct management and they are all for sending
> me to SANS Fire 2013 in Washington, DC.  The only issue now is that I
> have to convince upper management that it is worth it to pay for me to go
> to the training.  The class I am taking is SEC506 Securing Unix/Linux and
> considering our environment is 97% Linux it should be a no brainer.  But
> I was wondering if anyone could help provided me with some bullet points I
> can use in my write up to help convince upper management to pay for the
> course.  The company I work for is a contacting company mostly to the
> Federal Government with some Private Industry so anything related to the
> Federal Government would be great.
>
> Thanks
>
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