RE: [Full-disclosure] to start a career in security is ccsp(ciscocertified security professional) good enough?

[Jan Nielsen]

CCSP is a decent place to start, you could take some of the courses and not just the exams, that will get you nowhere I think (technically), other than just getting the certification, try and get your hands dirty first, I personally spent 4 or 5 years in the industry doing security related setups, firewalls, ids, vpn, hips and so on before going to take the CCSP, and I only did it so my company could achieve Cisco Gold Partner Status, and not really to be able to use it in a technical manner, since I already knew the stuff covered in most of the tests. Also remember, that since this is a Cisco certification, a lot of the stuff will be cisco related and specific and some of the basics of vpn/ids/firewalling will apply to many different vendors products. I feel that CISSP is not really the same “track” as CCSP, it has more todo with security practice and overview, methods of analyzing and identifying security issues rather than actual configuration of security equipment.   Just my 2 cents Regards Jan       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Jose Sent: 7. december 2005 04:03 To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] to start a career in security is ccsp(ciscocertified security professional) good enough?   i am a undergraduate student. will get a btech ie BS in computer science degree in 2007. to start a path in security is ccsp good enough? the more advanced ones like cissp either need experience or are just too expensive... those certifications can come along the way.. but to start a career is ccsp ok?... most others dont have the learning centers in india. i hope that a ccsp will land me a job after graduation.. like a part time. AND  i can pursue my ms in artificial intelligence... so i will be a security professional as well as an ai practitioner.. i have interest in both.....i plan to settle abroad.. may be usa or eu.... -- As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to daestroy.                       - Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations

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