Dave, I agree with Leon. If you are intending on pursuing an Information Security career, you will be better served to go with a SANS certification or the SSCP. I have done both the Cisco Security curriculum and the SANS GSEC curriculum. In my opinion, the only thing that the Cisco courses are good for is product specific training. I did not feel that they gave me an understanding of the Information Security process as a whole. On the other hand, the SANS curriculum is excellent at providing you with technology specific information and where that technology fits into the whole security process.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:18 PM To: 'Dave Mee'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cisco security -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would like to point out that the certification is valid for only 2 years. I don't necessarily know if it is worth the 500 (125 an exam * 4 exams) to have recertify every 2 years. Additionally, you say you know about sans, I would say either the sans firewall or ids cert are much more respected then cisco's equivalent exams. Finally I don't really even see cisco ids out there that much in production so I didn't feel much of a need to pass an exam on it. Just my thoughts, If you want to get into security try a vendor neutral cert like sans, cissp, or SSCP. Cheers, Leon - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Mee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cisco security Has anyone taken the exams for Cisco Security Specialist 1?? How good are they? Is it worth the time and money? I'm a CCNA and looking to add on security related certs. Already know about SANS certs. thanks dave _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPHp/w9qAgf0xoaEuEQLctgCff8SZDQzP5kQdoxJZ5lJmvzqf2f0AoNk8 Nw4EVhRlRqwli/m2+YxxoXMA =plZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
