If I was creating an FAQ list of the most commonly asked questions from people trying to get into the field of cybersecurity, many of the questions would be all about how to get started and how did people who are now working in cybersecurity get started.
MCSE 🔥 i bet you have some stories! I remember configuring checkpoint and PIX firewalls back in my Netware days. The first firewall I worked with might predate you - it was the Linux firewall toolkit or FWTK
Ha - that first generation of the MCSE, the exams were tough - each one of the six seemed like ton to get through and then sweat through a four hour exam etc. I didn't work with firewalls much in my Netware days - it was almost all servers and some comms headaches either with dial-in modems or WAN networks.
First firewall exposure I got was in Unisys and IT services days - Sonic Wall, Cisco, and a lot of Fortinet because that was the recommended vendor at the bigger place I worked at.
Did you get a CCIE? I did the CCNA - it's the only cert exam I had to take twice - failed the first time by the margin of like one or two questions. But I knew I couldn't go any further. That was never gonna be my strong area.
The first Masters was Exchange (email) this was the 2nd track (real time comms - LCS/Lync/Skype/Teams). They were 3 week rotations and you had to pass a 12 hour hands on written + lab test at the end. I went through rotation 0 to test the curriculum and then taught the all-day video module for every subsequent rotation.
MCSE 🔥 i bet you have some stories! I remember configuring checkpoint and PIX firewalls back in my Netware days. The first firewall I worked with might predate you - it was the Linux firewall toolkit or FWTK
Ha - that first generation of the MCSE, the exams were tough - each one of the six seemed like ton to get through and then sweat through a four hour exam etc. I didn't work with firewalls much in my Netware days - it was almost all servers and some comms headaches either with dial-in modems or WAN networks.
First firewall exposure I got was in Unisys and IT services days - Sonic Wall, Cisco, and a lot of Fortinet because that was the recommended vendor at the bigger place I worked at.
Yep MCSE was a bear and intentionally so. CCIE tho...
Did you get a CCIE? I did the CCNA - it's the only cert exam I had to take twice - failed the first time by the margin of like one or two questions. But I knew I couldn't go any further. That was never gonna be my strong area.
Oh hell naw and same. I did help create a Microsoft certification track called Masters that was meant to compete with the CCIE though.
Whoa, that's impressive. Just pure Windows networking content or including network infrastructure?
The first Masters was Exchange (email) this was the 2nd track (real time comms - LCS/Lync/Skype/Teams). They were 3 week rotations and you had to pass a 12 hour hands on written + lab test at the end. I went through rotation 0 to test the curriculum and then taught the all-day video module for every subsequent rotation.