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RE: Education and Security
From: "Gaydosh, Adam" <GaydoshA () ctcgsc org>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:21:20 -0400
dual-major! You will ultimately want a balance of the skills offered by both degrees for your professional career..but if you find that's not feasible, then I suggest you go for the BA, and take a few CS electives to round out your technical background. It is increasingly important that the techies can use their skills to enable business, not just support it. Also, I find that most undergradutate CS programs teach you core concepts, but often not much of the actual technologies you will be working with out of school...so that you will have to continue your technical education [even if only self-study] beyond undergraduate courses regardless of which major you choose...HTH! -adam
-----Original Message----- From: Daryl [mailto:dwalleck () satx rr com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:38 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Education and Security I believe questions similar to this have been asked before but my version is a bit different. I'm currently a computer science major (not too far along) who's always been interested in the security field. I chose CS for a major since it was the closest thing. Recently my college began to offer a full BA in Infrastructure Assurance, their version of a security degree. My only worry is that the degree plan is rooted in the school of Business and therefore requires a large core of business classes and not as much technical work (a copy of the requirements can be found here http://business.utsa.edu/undergraduate/degrees/is/BBA_IA.pdf). At this point I think I've thought the issue to death in my head and I could really use some outside input. Any thoughts? Daryl Walleck --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------
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- Education and Security Daryl (Apr 06)
- RE: Education and Security JTH (Apr 07)
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- Re: Education and Security Phillip McCollum (Apr 07)
- RE: Education and Security Gaydosh, Adam (Apr 07)
- Re: Education and Security Andy Blair (Apr 07)
- RE: Education and Security eeefm (Apr 14)
- Re: Education and Security Cl Clay (Apr 08)
- RE: Education and Security Billy Dodson (Apr 08)