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ISSA Board Elections

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The ISSA is holding elections to the international board in June.  A long time friend and colleague is running, George Proeller.  I have known George for many years and can attest that his official biography http://www.issa.org/Elections/2009%20Election%20CandidatesAV.html#proeller leaves much out.  During his term as president of the local chapter, his primary foci were jobs for members, educational and improvement opportunities for members, and value for our membership dollar.  I certainly did get value for my dollar, I can assure you.  We have a vibrant and strong membership because of the leading efforts of George.  I’m positive he will be able to positively impact ISSA international as well.  His work in South America alone shows his forward and global thinking.

If this sounds like an endorsement, it is — an enthusiastic one.

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Security+ 2008 Objectives Announced

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The objectives for the new Security+, 2008 Objectives are now officially available on the CompTIA web site. They are planning on general availability of the exam in October 2008 and retirement of the 2003 objectives 2qtr of 2009. No word yet if a beta will be available.

 

This is a much needed update as the topics on the 2003 object list were quite dated. The big changes include currency for modern threats and the number of domains they use; increasing domains from 5 to 6.

 

Sadly, cryptography is still late being listed. Authors will use the same sequence when they write their books and many courses will be written to the books. As a result students will still get cryptography late rather than up front. I can’t really fault CompTIA for this order, I place the blame on course designers who don’t think about sequencing of material.

See ya’ around.

 

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