Security, certification, and Cloud Computing

[Bill Bogstad]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Jerry Natowitz <j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm a out of work IT Generalist.  I consider myself a Unix Sysadmin,
> primarily Solaris, but my actual jobs have mainly been in SW Development
> and QA.
>
> In looking for a Sysadmin job, I've come to realize that I lack a few
> resume items:
>...
>
> But suppose she's right.  My second reaction to hearing Cloud Computing
> was "SECURITY".  I have virtually no job experience with security, so I
> thought perhaps I should look for certification.
>
> Any advise, either about certification, specializing in security, or
> Cloud Computing would be greatly appreciated.

My impression is that if you want to do security you should look into
both SANS (thats the organization not storage networks)  classes and
certification.  Of course, I've never wanted to do security; so this
is all hearsay...

Bill Bogstad