On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, opie san wrote:
[Disclaimer: I work for TruSecure corporation, and I'm on the oversight
board for the certification program and this isn't an official message, a
job offer or the answer to which is the best firewall.]
> I know that ICSA Labs is also working on vendor neutral security certs for
> people. They are well known for their product certs currently. You can get
> more info on their people certs at
> http://www.trusecure.com/html/secsol/practitioner.shtml. This was the topic
> of a long discussion a few months ago as well. I'm still waiting on the ICSA
> test to come out. I've already gone through some of the "required" classes at
> Global Knowledge but they were mostly common sense. Glad my company paid for
> them and not myself. 8^) Anyway, good luck.
The Global Knowledge classes aren't _required_, the training portion is
vendor-neutral, Global Knowledge is just the first training vendor we're
supporting directly.
The first of the certifications (ICSA - yes, that's the name of the
certification and the business unit that does product testing- it's
confusing) will be mostly common-sense stuff. It's meant to be the stuff
we all wish network and system admins knew but apparently don't by the
number of compromised hosts and poorly configured systems we all see.
Think of it more as "must be this high to connect to the Internet" than
anything. Mainly targeted towards people who need to run systems and
networks but aren't security professionals, it's expected that there will
be lots of these folks around.
I'd expect that most folks on this list would be more interested in the
other certifications, but they aren't as far along in the pipeline yet,
the ICSE one will be targeted more towards hands-on security people than
generic network adminstrators or policy people. At this point that's more
vapor than anything though.
Just to be clear, this is my personal understanding, and I'm not talking
for either TruSecure or the oversight board in this message.
Any follow-up questions are probably best handled off-list, as this
subject is single-vendor and tangental to firewalls.
Paul
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