Subject: Re: CISSP
gaijin@gci.net
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 02:14:05 AKST
Security focus had a recent artcile regarding this cert:
http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/67
I would imagine it's as useful as any other: it will hopefully get your
resume past the HR flunky who's been tasked with checking the boxes of
incoming resumes and forwarding the ones who get all the boxes filled and
passed to a clueful interviewer for proper inquisition.
"Job # - check. Meets experience requirement - check. Accronyms that I
need to look for because my supervisor read about them in a propaganda
sheet^W^WHuman Resources trade magazine - check."
;)
HTH. Sorry about the delay - been "busy".
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
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> Anyone here taken the CISSP or found it useful? It is
> supposed to cover OPSEC for IS, but from what I have seen of the exam
> questions the validity of the cert is questionable. (Asking things
> like "What is the packet type for Internet Security to encode both
> payload and header?", when they are really asking about IPSec header
> options dealing with whether you cryptosign the payload in the header,
> or encrypt the payload *and* cryptosign it in the header.
>
> >From what I can tell it has gone from being somewhat useful in 1996 or
> so to being like the A+ these days.
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> Anyway, looking for comments on it.
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> Chris
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