My GIAC GCIA certification status, CISSP, and information assurance MBAs
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
SANS GIAC has posted my GCIA certification status as #716. My practical should be posted when the current students have completed their practical assignment. In retrospect, it took me 73 days (Oct 31 – Jan 12) to complete my GCFW and 96 days (Jan 15 – Apr 17) to complete my GCIA. I plan on eventually obtaining the CISSP and have recently been mulling over the idea of getting an MBA in information assurance. At this point its fairly hard to find advanced academic degrees that focus on the corporate and physical sides of security. The NSA has a list of 50 schools that they dub “Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education”. The list is a logical starting place but it would be tough to stop working and start a two-year degree or do them simultaneously. I’ve recently read that Carnegie Mellon has been working to develop an institute for working information security professionals. Carnegie Mellon currently has two master’s-level programs under their Information Networking Institute that are a good continuing education starting point: Master of Science in Information Networking and Master of Science in Information Security Technology and Management.
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