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OSCP One Month in, First Thoughts
Skip first paragraph if you dont care about my background. Whenever I read threads about taking certs I always wonder the backgrounds of the people taking it so I thought I would provide it. Currently in my 30's started on a helpdesk in my 20s moved to network engineering primarily worked on firewalls did routing and… -
Could really use some advice
Please forgive the length, I figure for the best advice a little background is probably in order. I spent just under 8 years in the military, half of that working in communications. While the majority of the work consisted of working with radios, there was some basic networking involved. The other half, I worked as recon… -
Re: Please Help! - Schooling/Careers
40K for an associate's degree? Yikes. I need to start my own for profit tech college if they are pulling in that kind of tuition! I'm sort of where you are trying to get (full time employment in computer security), though my job is more aligned with risk management frameworks and auditing and much less aligned with… -
CEH CPT (Certified Penetration Tester) Review
Reposted from EH.net Hello all. If I remember correctly I made some comments when Michael Heinzl wrote his InfoSec Institute CEH/CPT review(on eh.net). My comment was that his review was pretty much the same things I would have written and another review was unnecessary. However, having (hopefully) completed both the CEH… -
Hello All - Just wanted to drop by and say hi to everyone!
Hello Techexams family. Just wanted to drop by and say hello and maybe encourage some of you who are just coming into this field. I guess it was about 2003 or 2004 when I joined here or at least started to look around. I had some experience but zero certifications. Shortly after I started studying for A+ Net+ Security+ and… -
Re: In junior year - will Associate of ISC2 help?
Vulnerability assessments or penetration test or risk assessments? Are you trying to do Ca and A work or technical work (or both)? You really need to be specific. Like for me I know I want to manage IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, WAPs and concenrtators. Linux servers and (sigh) Windows servers are also apart of my… -
Re: why no study guides for SANS™ Institute GIAC Certifications available?
Wait, don't you mean their OnDemand is overpriced compared to the OffSec equivalent? Or perhaps you just meant OnDemand's "simulation" of being like a live class? In any case, some of you who are on the SANS Advisory board might have also seen the lengthy threads / complaints a while back about SANS training costs from… -
Re: I.T has been a waste of time...
So the solution is to learn nothing and hope for success? While this is cute it's hardly true anywhere. And if the circumstances are right, this is how it should be. People should be and should want to be where they are most comfortable and perform the best. The guy who gets the promotion might be a so so hands on tech,… -
Re: Should I take the CISSP Exam?
Make sure the money is not the only reason. You can't be great in IT Security unless you truly enjoy it. Things change almost daily (latest exploits and vulnearbilites, etc), so you have to be able to commit to constant reading and knowledge enhancements. I hear people complain about reading 2 to 4 hours per day preparing… -
Re: eCRE vs. CREA
I just finished CREA in December. I looked at other courses as well, but it came down to my employer would pay for Infosec Institute because the certification is independent from the course (though they still paid for OSCP and OSWP). I'll start with what the course from Infosec Institute covered. The course: The course was…
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