RE: CompTIA security+ versus SANS boot camp security essentials...

[<adrian.joseph () charityshare org uk>]

Murad

I am in a similar position to yourself as my bread and butter has been
network support / admin. I did the comptia security+ at the beginning of
the year and found it very interesting. However, what I would say about
it is that it is very general and since doing the study I have forgotten
most of it as I am still in my old role.  Having looked around at the
job markets I see a lot of security roles that are looking for linux,
specific firewall qualifications like checkpoints ccsa, and routing
qualifications like ciscos ccna. Also programming skills seem to be an
additional requirement. I guess it all depends on what area of security
you want to go into. Also, have you thought about doing the mcse +
security path. If you do the comptia security+ then microsoft will count
this as one of the electives.

Regards

Adrian.
-----Ori

-----Original Message-----
From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m () subway com] 
Sent: 25 July 2005 02:46
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: FW: CompTIA security+ versus SANS boot camp security
essentials...





I'm being allocated some of the company's mandatory training budget and
wanted people's experience/views on the differences of the two courses
that I'm sourcing:

CompTIA Security+(in class)
SANS Security essentials bootcamp(online)

Has anyone done both(unlikely, methinks) and which one would be
(slightly) more Windows-centric? Also, which one would be more suited to
a network admin who wants to head more in the security direction.



Kind Regards
Murad Talukdar



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