Tuesday, September 19, 2017

My first SANS/GIAC certification

I have several infosec certifications, but most are from ISC(2) and ISACA.

This past week I learned that I passed the test I took for a new GIAC certification: the GSTRT, which is for the GIAC Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership.  Its tied to SANS's new MGT514: IT Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership, which I took last year.  At the time there was no cert, so I got to beta test the new exam.

Not having done any of the GIAC certs, this was a new experience for me.  GIAC allows you to bring your books with you, so I knew it was vital to prep for the cert.  I read and re-read my books and also created my own index of the books.  This was vital because one volume was devoted to leadership concepts, and it had a lot, many I wasn't familiar with when I took the course.  In many cases, they almost introduced a new concept every 2-3 pages!

I don't know my score yet, but am curious to learn how well I did.


4 comments:

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  2. Great post with very useful information to all thanks for sharing with all of us. I like it very much.
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  3. Hello, are you able to share your index for GSTRT? Thanks

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  4. Is it possible to share the index ?? I'm using voltaire website to create in index but still not sure if will extract perfectly.

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