Education Building Your Lab You Are Your Projects Practicing with Bounties Have a Presence On Certifications Making Contributions Networking With Others Conferences Responding to CFPs Landing Your First Job Mastering Professionalism Understanding the Business Having Passion Becoming Guru I’ve been doing Information Security (now called Cybersecurity by many) for around 20 years now, and I’ve spent most of…
Why CISSPs DO Need to Be Decently Versed in Technology
I have been taking a bit of flak regarding my post comparing the CISSP to the GSEC. It’s been interpreted as negative towards the CISSP, which I suppose is fair to some degree. I find the prevailing argument put forth by Martin McKeay in support of the certification to be weak at best (essentially that GSEC is technical…
Should CISSP’s Know Basic Networking?
I say yes. Martin McKeay from Network Security Blog disagrees. He writes: I kind of like Daniel Miessler’s writing and think he has some good posts, but he totally misses the point of the CISSP when he complains about CISSPs who can’t program a home network. The CISSP isn’t aimed at testing someone’s ability to program their Linksys…
CISSP vs. GSEC
With my recent attainment of the GSEC credential, I’ve had some discussions about how it compares to the CISSP in terms of difficulty and respectability. Here is one such discussion from a forum I frequent.: The main reason the CISSP in more respected is because of the standards the ISC2 has established, such as proving the identification of…