On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Matt Lawrence<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jesse Trucks wrote: > >> Matt, >> >> That entirely depends on your purpose, experience, and career-path. >> >> If you want a general overview type of certification that doesn't go deep >> into a vertical technical arena, the CISSP is pretty good. If you are looking >> at business and technical process management or consulting regarding >> technology, the CISSP is great. If you want it for deep technical security >> knowledge, don't do it unless you need to round out technical security >> experience or areas of knowledge you don't have now. > > I think you have just described where I want my career to go. I'm > interested in being a data center manager and hopefully work my way up to > being a CIO. I'm tired of being at the bottom of the food chain.
If you are looking to be a CIO, I would highly recommend that you consider an MBA program. That will help you understand the business people that you'll need to communicate with, plus help you understand the people-management side of things. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
