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Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:39:44 +1000
From: "Fredrick Diggle" <fdiggle@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Geeks

thank you for the qualified opinion valdis. everyone cares very much.
can't you see how much we are all caring. also I saw a deal on
mustache wax the other day, email fredrick off list for linkage.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:10 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:11:37 PDT, Morning Wood said:
>> >> Anybody who thinks a CISSP is a "license to hack" is dreadfully ignorant
>> >> of what little overlap there is between hacking skills and the material
>> >> covered in the CISSP.
>>
>> CISSP's cant hack
>
> Right, because the CISSP isn't about hacking. It's about risk management.
> It's about balancing the cost of adding more security to a system against
> the costs of an intrusion.  It's about the costs of testing a disaster
> recovery plan, and the costs of not having a plan.  It's about what sort
> of backup schedule you should have, and what the retention period on the
> backups should be, and why.  It's about knowing how deep a background check
> you should make on prospective employees.  It's about how much security
> awareness training the users need.
>
> Hacking is a *very small* part of the security world.
>
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