July 2008

Registered for CISSP

July 30, 2008

I finally made a commitment and registered for my CISSP exam. I’m scheduled to take the test in late October; that gives me 12 weeks to study for it. Last September I took the week long course through SANS, and I feel that 12 weeks of review should be plenty. I certainly am not taking [...]

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MSIA application

July 26, 2008

I just finished my application essay for the Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) at Norwich University. I’m pretty excited about getting that started. I’m going to take my CISSP in October and if when I pass, I’ll get to skip ahead in class to the 2nd session when school starts in December. That [...]

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Recommended Certs and Workforce Structure for IA

July 20, 2008

There’s a good article in Network World about the DoD recommended certifications and workforce structure for Information Assurance professionals. I agree with the author that if this is the direction the DoD is going, the rest of us can expect to see it filter into our organizations. If nothing else, it gives us all a [...]

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Site is up

July 19, 2008

I just finished writing the pages for the rest of my new domain – at least for now. I added the lightly populated beckitrue.com home page. That one was easy. It just points to this blog or to my Cisco CCNA teaching site. I borrowed the style sheet from my DOCSIS site, so I had [...]

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A new beginning

July 13, 2008

This is my blog for my professional pursuits. I’m going to start teaching a CCNA Exploration course at CSN, and will be starting my Masters degree soon. I wanted to have a place for this information, as well as notes on my certification studies that is separate from my personal website. I also moved my [...]

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