I switched away from Joomla to WordPress several years ago because hackers kept banging on my virtual doors. I'm looking into switching from WordPress to a static file generator. Can't hack what doesn't have any vulnerabilities.
Could it be that you're working with the DoD, which has a requirement (8570) by the military?
I can neither confirm nor deny, but a lot of my coworkers are ex-military. With the DoD having the largest computer network in the world (or so I've been told), it wouldn't surprise me if the DoD set the standards for the rest of the government.
Sec+ is mostly useless unless you're required to have it for the job.
I've known people who blitzed through their certifications and couldn't get a job because they had no actual work experience. I got my experience before I got my certifications, which made taking the exams easier. While the specific details of technology changes over the years, troubleshooting users and technology doesn't change.
When I did help desk for Google, I had to walk a newly hired graduate from Stanford University in turning on his desktop computer. He apparently never owned his own computer and used the computer labs extensively at school, where someone was always around to turn on the computers and made sure that they work. I welcomed him to the real world.
You simply lucked out or had the right connections to get on that project.
Not luck or connections. I had an impressive resume backed up by years of experience. Everyone else on my team also have similar backgrounds. Those who are faking it are fired within a month.
At some point you are going to have to be honest with someone, even if that someone is only yourself.
You sound full of yourself. Let me guess, you got a master degree?
I was hired on for a nationwide I.T. security project a year-and-a-half ago. Everyone who got hired on had 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience. Everyone has the basic certs: A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows. Our project leads has 20+ years of general I.T. experience, the basic certs, and Security+ or higher certifications. I'm studying for the Security+ and ITIL certifications (DoD favorites). I was hoping that the requirement 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience, which you need to complete the basic certs if you follow the recommended guidelines for each one, would save me from dealing with the idiots who have a degree or certification but no experience.
A Google search came up with a bunch of East Coast schools with that degree program. Since I'm on the West Coast (California, in particular), it's an easy assumption to make.
Whatever happened to having 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience before entering InfoSec? A master degree is no better than a certification without the work experience.
Never heard of a master degree in Information Assurance. Looks like an East Coast thing. I was puzzled why another commentator referred to a master degree when no master degree was mentioned in the summary. I thought it was an obscure Microsoft (MS) certification.
Remake the Final Fantasy movie using today's animation technology. While the version looked stunning back in 2001, it looks dated and overdue for a remake.
When I was looking through college catalogs in the early 1990's, some degree programs allowed the substitution of foreign language classes with programing language classes. Alas, eight years in Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify as an acceptable programming language for college.
Atheists are not associated with any particular ethnic group. As a group they would be hard to deport. Besides, no one wans to empty out the churches throughout the country.
The community college in my neighborhood is in the process of replacing 50-year-old buildings. The old baseball field in the middle of campus was closed. City council and neighbors approved a baseball field next to the neighborhood. Which was fine until the 80-foot-tall poles for the nets to capture the baseballs went up, creating an instant eyesore. That little detail got left out of the scaled model that everyone saw. The poles came down, the new baseball field became a new soccer field for the campus and neighborhood teams, and the baseball team plays at the minor baseball stadium until a permanent solution can be found.
But I recently rebuilt my FreeNAS file server with five 1TB WD Red NAS hard drives for $50 each. A nice upgrade over the Seagate and Hitachi drives that all reported heat-related errors after five years of 24/7 service.
When I was growing up in the 1970's, we were building bombs and blowing crap up. Which for many was an introduction to chemistry. These days you can't even buy a chemistry set without someone worrying about Little Ahmed making a bomb to go along with the clock.
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I switched away from Joomla to WordPress several years ago because hackers kept banging on my virtual doors. I'm looking into switching from WordPress to a static file generator. Can't hack what doesn't have any vulnerabilities.
Could it be that you're working with the DoD, which has a requirement (8570) by the military?
I can neither confirm nor deny, but a lot of my coworkers are ex-military. With the DoD having the largest computer network in the world (or so I've been told), it wouldn't surprise me if the DoD set the standards for the rest of the government.
Sec+ is mostly useless unless you're required to have it for the job.
Isn't that true for any certification?
I've known people who blitzed through their certifications and couldn't get a job because they had no actual work experience. I got my experience before I got my certifications, which made taking the exams easier. While the specific details of technology changes over the years, troubleshooting users and technology doesn't change.
When I did help desk for Google, I had to walk a newly hired graduate from Stanford University in turning on his desktop computer. He apparently never owned his own computer and used the computer labs extensively at school, where someone was always around to turn on the computers and made sure that they work. I welcomed him to the real world.
You simply lucked out or had the right connections to get on that project.
Not luck or connections. I had an impressive resume backed up by years of experience. Everyone else on my team also have similar backgrounds. Those who are faking it are fired within a month.
At some point you are going to have to be honest with someone, even if that someone is only yourself.
You sound full of yourself. Let me guess, you got a master degree?
I was hired on for a nationwide I.T. security project a year-and-a-half ago. Everyone who got hired on had 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience. Everyone has the basic certs: A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows. Our project leads has 20+ years of general I.T. experience, the basic certs, and Security+ or higher certifications. I'm studying for the Security+ and ITIL certifications (DoD favorites). I was hoping that the requirement 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience, which you need to complete the basic certs if you follow the recommended guidelines for each one, would save me from dealing with the idiots who have a degree or certification but no experience.
A Google search came up with a bunch of East Coast schools with that degree program. Since I'm on the West Coast (California, in particular), it's an easy assumption to make.
Whatever happened to having 10 to 20 years of general I.T. experience before entering InfoSec? A master degree is no better than a certification without the work experience.
Security+ and ITIL are popular in my department. Since we are a Windows shop, Win7 and Server certs are nice to have.
If you're not pooping gold bricks each week, you're not doing it right.
Never heard of a master degree in Information Assurance. Looks like an East Coast thing. I was puzzled why another commentator referred to a master degree when no master degree was mentioned in the summary. I thought it was an obscure Microsoft (MS) certification.
If you bother to read the summary: "I already have my CISSP, along with an MS in Information Assurance, so the two obvious choices are finished."
So the question should really be what to take after being BS-certified by Microsoft and CISSP.
Remake the Final Fantasy movie using today's animation technology. While the version looked stunning back in 2001, it looks dated and overdue for a remake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within
Depends on my eggs you want to break.
Logic, knowledge, and discipline are timeless.
Too bad they don't teach that in school.
Does Slashdot still has news that matter to geeks?
Today's chemistry sets are like today's fireworks: more whimper and less bang for the buck.
When I was looking through college catalogs in the early 1990's, some degree programs allowed the substitution of foreign language classes with programing language classes. Alas, eight years in Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify as an acceptable programming language for college.
When I worked at Cisco, I was part of a minority group that two white guys and one Latino guy, all native born. Everyone else was from India.
Atheists are not associated with any particular ethnic group. As a group they would be hard to deport. Besides, no one wans to empty out the churches throughout the country.
I've seen 80-foot tall nets at a golf range next to a freeway. Can't have those birdies interfering with the evening commute.
The community college in my neighborhood is in the process of replacing 50-year-old buildings. The old baseball field in the middle of campus was closed. City council and neighbors approved a baseball field next to the neighborhood. Which was fine until the 80-foot-tall poles for the nets to capture the baseballs went up, creating an instant eyesore. That little detail got left out of the scaled model that everyone saw. The poles came down, the new baseball field became a new soccer field for the campus and neighborhood teams, and the baseball team plays at the minor baseball stadium until a permanent solution can be found.
But I recently rebuilt my FreeNAS file server with five 1TB WD Red NAS hard drives for $50 each. A nice upgrade over the Seagate and Hitachi drives that all reported heat-related errors after five years of 24/7 service.
I'd be okay with every Christian leaving the US. Your religion and culture is based on violence and the suppression of women. GTFO!
FTFY
When I was growing up in the 1970's, we were building bombs and blowing crap up. Which for many was an introduction to chemistry. These days you can't even buy a chemistry set without someone worrying about Little Ahmed making a bomb to go along with the clock.