From: Diment, Andrew (Andrew.Diment@qwest.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 12:31:12 GMT-3
I too have been examining this issue. I have my CCIE R&S and thought about
pursuing the security CCIE. I am about to complete a bachelors degree
in IT and took information security as my electives track. I can tell you that the
technical aspect of information security is only a very small piece. I am instead going
to pursue the (ISC) CISSP and possibly a masters degree in information security. Go to
monster.com and type in the key word CISSP and then CCIE for a particular city to see the
type of jobs available.
The best second CCIE to get is in AVVID (call manager). Right now you could write your own ticket with that
certification. One of my teachers is also a information security manager at a major company. He said their
networking department is outsourcing and letting people go while the security department is growing quickly.
These security jobs are not configuring firewalls or VPN's, that is being outsourcing too, this
is more like CERT, incident response, policies creation and such.
Just some food for thought. :)
Andy
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Jens Petter Eikeland
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:38 AM
To: blodwick; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: why CCIE Security?
Brian..
I totaly agree with you. I pursued the ccie security cert for a couple of
year. I had a networking security job where I worked lots with firewalls,
vpn and other security related stuff. It is not that often that I meet on
cisco security related stuff in the fild. Then I changed job to another ISP,
and they told me also that I did not need to pursu that cert since they also
seldom had any cisco related security stuff other than the security part
that is in the r&s blueprint... They told me to rather pursu that cert,
because the security blueprint studd was not needed... I understand that
there is many firm that do use cisco much on the security platform, but at
least here in norway that is not common..
Just my opinion..
Jens
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From: "blodwick" <blodwick@columbus.rr.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:15 AM
Subject: why CCIE Security?
>I am curious about the primary motive people have for pursuing the
> Security CCIE?
>
> The reason I question it is because when it comes to routing and
> switching products its a no-brainer Cisco is the leader by a long shot,
> but there is a major difference in Ciscos market-share when it comes to
> security related products.
>
> I suspect the reason is because folks want to show expert competency in
> security and know that employers already have a developed respect for
> the CCIE title in general.
>
> Just curious
> Brian L.
>
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