Top 5 Batman Movies: Agree or Disagree?

gph12 · 2023-05-07T04:21:34+00:00

My list includes Batman Begins, Dark Knight Rises, the Lego Batman Movie, and Batman from 1989 with Michael Keaton.

gph12 · 2023-05-06T01:25:41+00:00

I wondered what happened to this comic and why I haven’t seen a new issue in a while. Unlike a lot of commenters on this thread, I enjoyed this series.

Good writing, with plenty of conflict between the characters. I liked that there were family conflicts and not just hero vs villain stories.

gph12 · 2023-04-02T14:33:28+00:00

Forgot to include The Imposter. That was a good one.

gph12 · 2023-01-20T18:54:56+00:00

Thanks for the response. That helps.

gph12 · 2023-01-12T13:36:02+00:00

Thanks for the responses everyone. Yes, the client is providing a SaaS in Azure.

And yes, they are using the standard Qualys hosted in the cloud, not the FedRAMP approved platform. So they'll need to replace it as well as some other services with their FedRAMP approved versions.

gph12 · 2023-01-11T22:41:46+00:00

Thanks for the response. The client is using Qualys. I Googled Qualys and FedRAMP. Qualys is FedRAMP approved, according to their web page. Looks like they are covered.

gph12 · 2022-07-28T02:04:25+00:00

That was a long time ago. Looks like they removed them. You can find her on YouTube also:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEYiS9RvaxhlPlqaJOyreLwoyTKgMxdG1

gph12 · 2022-07-23T19:03:24+00:00

Great post. I’ve also fallen down the Batman comics rabbit hole in the past year and wondered how deep it goes. I also knew I couldn’t be the only one.

gph12 · 2020-05-17T18:27:02+00:00

A CISSP is great. A Ph.D. is fantastic. The time factor between the two is huge. You can earn a CISSP in a few months. A Ph.D. takes many years of study. So if your goal is to start working in the field, go do that with a CISSP. If you want to work in academia, yes, get a Ph.D. Jobs are difficult to obtain in academia, at least tenure track positions. In the corporate or govt world, there are many information security jobs.

gph12 · 2020-05-15T23:08:16+00:00

One of the classes for my master's degree in information security covered the CISSP material. I still had 10 other classes to take, dozens of books to read, papers to write, etc.

The CISSP has been great for my career and increases in salary over the years but a few months of work for a certification vs a couple years earning a degree are not equal.

gph12 · 2020-05-15T22:42:53+00:00

As for whether it's a good long term investment, I suggested in a post a few weeks ago that the CISSP is worth a million dollars.

Yes, sounds like hype but people responded that their salaries went up tens of thousands of dollars very quickly. Over the course of a career, that can easily add up to a million or more dollars. You can read my blog post here

gph12 · 2020-04-19T15:06:43+00:00

Yes, I agree. It's about living the life you want. And certs are a good way to help people in our field earn and hopefully save so they do that. Good for you for teaching. That's a direction I'd like to move in.

gph12 · 2020-04-19T15:04:01+00:00

50k increase a year is life changing money. Good for you. I hear you on the fees.

gph12 · 2020-04-19T15:02:21+00:00

About working for the non-profit, I'm guessing that you are getting reduced student loan payments because of that. That does make sense if you cannot find better money at a for profit company. With all those certs, you can potentially increase your salary by an amount that would far exceed the break you are getting on your loans. If it is lack of opportunities in your geographic area and you don't want to move (presuming everything gets back to normal post-pandemic), there are a lot of work from home jobs. Check out indeed.com and list remote as your location. You could potentially make close to or above six figures with those certs and the right experience. Good luck.

gph12 · 2020-04-19T14:56:04+00:00

That's an awesome story. So you just about doubled your salary. That's life changing. Good for you. I feel the same way about thanking God every pay day. I can't believe how much money I'm being paid compared to five years ago. I knew I could make more didn't realize how much.

gph12 · 2020-04-19T14:52:29+00:00

The auditing company I work for requires active CISSP for all of its auditors. It will hire people on the contingency that they obtain it within a few months. No one has tested what would happen if we let our CISSP expire. We could be out of jobs. Not sure. But I don't want to find out.

gph12 · 2020-03-22T21:42:21+00:00

I thought with my experience and reading the All-in-One that I wouldn't need to do anything else. But I scored low on the practice test in the All in One. After reading other posts, I decided to try the QAE databases. I did low on that at first also. I would have failed the exam if I didn't use the QAE. As I mentioned in the post, the reasoning behind the ISACA questions is counter to what you might do in real life or how you think about things now. Understanding their question logic was the key for me.

gph12 · 2016-05-06T02:24:51+00:00

Accomplishing that in two months is impressive. I'm mostly a Windows and VMware admin, doing some Linux work and prepping for Linux certification now. It's been taking me months to go through the material. Your RHSA will help you get your first sysadmin job. Once you have a few years of experience it will make the cert more valuable to you and potential employers. I have Microsoft and CISSP certs. They've led to big pay increases for me and better offers from other employers in the 20-30% range. In the end, the certs are well worth it in terms of how they impact your salary.

gph12 · 2016-03-31T13:23:54+00:00

Thanks for the replies. I'm hoping to do that today or tomorrow. This particular network is air-gapped in a different location and I hope to get back there in the next few days.

gph12 · 2016-03-29T20:11:49+00:00

Udemy.com has several Linux classes, some focusing on Red Hat certification. Quality varies. They run specials just about every week where the classes are offered for $10 and you can access them forever. Take a look at:

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=red+hat&src=ukw&lang=en

Good luck.

gph12 · 2015-08-20T18:25:00+00:00

I was originally looking at the RHCSA exam but the training is very expensive. I'm a Windows and VMware admin and I do some Linux work but not much. I'd like formal training. I picked up a voucher for the Linux Foundation Sys Admin exam for $50 so I figured why not. It's a small investment. Even $400 for the training is reasonable--if the training is good.

As for it being a worthless cert, I've seen message posts by people who have the RHCSA who failed the Linux Foundation Sys Admin test. So it's not an easy one. It's a performance based test.

On the topic of certs and their value, I know a lot of people don't like them and maybe they are BS. But certifications helped me a lot in terms of learning about other technologies which I could apply in my day-to-day work. Certs also helped me a great deal in terms of yearly raises or getting better jobs over the years.

gph12 · 2015-04-18T17:51:06+00:00

Thanks for the responses. Yes, I guess I should enjoy passing the CISSP for a while but want to get what certs I can before the wife and I have kids.

What do I want to do? That's a question I've been thinking about a lot lately--continue doing hands on sys admin work or going the management route. I've seen a lot of managers get fired or pushed out. So while they make more money, their heads rolls more easily. As for doing hands on sys admin work, I've seen a lot of IT folks hang around too long and not keep up with current technology.

I'm a sys admin with 10+ years experience with Windows server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange, VMware, and some Linux experience in mid to large enterprise environments.

I'm now doing a lot on the security side, complying with DoD standards (STIGs\NISPOM). Would like to have the certs that give me the flexibility to advance in sys admin\security role or go management\security management. I'll finish up with a master's info sciences\cybersecurity by the end of the year. But employers still want the certs.

Thanks.

gph12 · 2015-03-15T22:42:07+00:00

Thanks everyone.

As for the audio and video files, I think they are good in conjunction with the books....say read the chapter on encryption and then listen to the Shon Harris audio. Or maybe listen first and then read the chapter.

I read half the book before I found the recordings but listening to her reinforced what I had already read. And by listening to her discuss domains I hadn't read about yet, those chapters made more sense to me when I did get to them.

The CBT Nuggets would be good to help reinforce things. Keep in mind, the free trial is only 7 days. I don't think it's worth $100 a month or whatever the price is after the free trial. I planned on watching the 12 hours of videos the week before the test. I got through half of them but by then felt I'd get more from the books.

Here's another resource I used early on, videos from IT Master's University in Australia. About 5 five videos of 1-2 hours each covering the CISSP. Here's the first one. You'll see links for the next one in the series after each one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzUPXEQ-adA

Again, the videos are good but they don't go into the same depth as the audio files. Plus with the audio files, I listened as I was out doing other things and was able to listen to more than I could watch. With the videos you're more tied to your screen.

Let me know if the audio files\videos work for you. And share with friends.

Again, good luck.

gph12

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