Re: Help Convincing Employer to Pay for SANS Training

[Pierre Wills <pierre.wills () gmail com>]

Thanks for all the advice. I think the best bet is to volunteer for SANS
Fire 2013. I live in the DC area so it would be perfect. I am still going
to submit my write up just in case I am not chosen as a volunteer but I am
definitely filling out the application tonight.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Tim Medin <timmedin () gmail com> wrote:

> I'll second what Mike said. If you can be a facilitator for a class you
> get the training and the cert for a significant discount. There is a LOT of
> work to do during the week being a facilitator.
>
> --Tim Medin
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mike Perez <mike () pauldotcom com> wrote:
>
> >  Volunteer for SansFire and cut the cost to $900...
> >
> > https://www.sans.org/work-study
> >
> > Sent from my Windows Phone
> >  ------------------------------
> > From: Pierre Wills <pierre.wills () gmail com>
> > Sent: 4/8/2013 23:01
> >
> > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List<pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com>
> > Subject: [Pauldotcom] Help Convincing Employer to Pay for SANS Training
> >
> > 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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