"Burtt, Keith" wrote:
>
> I have a request. I'm in a battle trying to get the company to pay
> for classes to have folks in my group certified. I want all to be
> certified as MSCE, Networking and Unix. The VP I'm dealing with
> says no one in any other company has certified people in their
> Security Groups. So I'm looking for your views and attempting to
> locate companies in the Cleveland area I can have a conference call
> with to discuss this with me and the VP. Maybe I'm losing it but my
> views are the security teams should be the cream of the crop for
> investigation purposes, etc.
Congratulations on your proactive approach!
Tell your boss that I am currently looking for work in security
administration, and one of the first things I ask a company is
whether or not they provide training for certification, and funding
for ongoing education. So far, the answer from companies concerned
about security is, overwhelmingly, "Yes!" In fact, some companies
I've talked with have said that they are not interested in staff who
are not actively pursuing certification, if not already certified.
Stick to your guns. If any substantial portion of your data is
resident on networked computers, and if there is any point of
contact between those computers and the greater internet world,
there is only the thin line of administrators between security and
compromised data.
-- LJM
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