[117071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hiers)
Mon Aug 31 16:07:05 2009
In-Reply-To: <53365.1251746696@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:06:34 -0700
From: David Hiers <hiersd@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Highly unlikely that 3 years is sufficient time to devise a certification,
No big deal; they could just adopt the CISSP/GIAC cert without
modification as an interim step. Existing certs are already being
used in some court cases:
http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=70438
> Unintended consequences - will this encourage the head of an agency to
> instead say "screw it" and *not* use any cybersecurity services?
Not likely. Corporate Officers must already make decisions that meet
a wide range of existing "reasonable man" tests with respect to
security. This is not the only law/regulation in existence.
David
