James et. al., THis is a nice little accounting of various certification programs, but, perhaps invalid in the job market at present, especially for those looking for first time opprotunities. At least considering recent discussions on such positions in the firewalls list as well as private conversations with a few managers of various MSSP's from that list along with recent personal observations of a few of those providers, and especially as they apply to Managed Security Services Providers, one of the areas in which people will find positions at the teir 1, or first time positions in the field. Seems many MSSP's find maintaining skills in their teir 1 personel beyond a 'good phone voice' and the most basic of unix skills, if even that, too costly and thus impossible to make a profit with. Now, if corners are being cut at teir 1 level support staff one has to suspect that perhaps teir2-3 staffings are also seeing similar cutbacks in skills sught and desired. Thanks, Ron DuFresne Meritt James wrote: > Article "New IS Security Requisites" at > http://www.informationweek.com/765/65uwjm.htm dated December 13, 1999. > Called it or what? > > -- > James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA > Booz, Allen & Hamilton > phone: (410) 684-6566 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ admin & senior consultant: darkstar.sysinfo.com http://darkstar.sysinfo.com "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart testing, only testing, and damn good at it too! ~~ The good thing about potential is, as long as you do nothing, you'll always have it.
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