In this ball game.. If you don't stay on the edge...
You become a dinosaur quickly...
Robert
--- Loren MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "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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