CISSP

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deanwebb

October 20, 2021, 10:15:50 AM
I'm 10% of the way in Shon Harris' book. Kindle keeps saying "1 minute left in chapter", but there are about 80 pages to go. Good move, Kindle! :lol:

Material-wise, this is the kind of stuff I like: lots of facts, basically. LOTS of facts. I used to coach Academic Decathlon, so I'm perfectly prepared for something like this. Read everything, take practice tests, read cram guides, take more practice tests, do the real thing. It's just a daily discipline in getting my reading in so that this gets done.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

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October 20, 2021, 10:19:52 AM
depth of knowledge is an inch deep, but a mile wide.. test is brutal, there was a big CISSP cheating scandal a bunch of years ago that diminished the value of the cert for a long time, some embers still burn..
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#2
October 20, 2021, 11:36:39 AM
Yeah, honestly, this is just something I gotta read, read, read, and then read some more about. Lots of reading on top of that. But, I'm doing this, I'm actually doing this.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#3
October 20, 2021, 04:24:26 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on October 20, 2021, 11:36:39 AM
Yeah, honestly, this is just something I gotta read, read, read, and then read some more about. Lots of reading on top of that. But, I'm doing this, I'm actually doing this.

Just remember that your data center is not secure if there is a hanging ceiling installed and someone can get a ladder and climb through the ceiling over the secured data center door and gain access.  THAT one always made me laugh because it is so common.


:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#4
October 21, 2021, 07:44:44 AM
My favorite is always the converted closet with about a dozen fans of various sizes all pointed to the open door.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#5
October 31, 2021, 02:01:37 PM
I have the books, still neatly plastic wrapped. Maybe next year.
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

#6
October 31, 2021, 03:21:07 PM
I'm finding that the opportunities to use what I've learned recently are many. This is helpful for review. :D
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#7
November 01, 2021, 10:14:50 PM
That alone is golden.
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

#8
November 02, 2021, 09:32:15 AM
Taking a break from CISSP direct study to read a pile of related whitepapers.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

deanwebb

#9
November 10, 2021, 06:31:28 AM
OK, finished the monster first section in Harris' book, took the test at the end. I got 79.4% right, 31 of 39. There were two that I was wobbly on, though, and they were in similar domains as the ones I missed. So, I need to make up some flashcard-type resources (Powerpoint with phased display of info works great here) for all the security framework acronyms, the ISO/IEC 27000 standards, and the steps of processes outlined in the book.

Then there's one question I missed because I didn't read the question carefully enough. So I need to slow down a bit to take in the scenery, as it were.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

deanwebb

#10
December 08, 2021, 11:30:22 AM
Got 75% on chapter 2. I'm thinking I want to go faster than a chapter per month... :D
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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