The Cost of Security Training

The Cost of Security Training
Don Parker, 2004-11-04

The cost of providing security training to your staff may be high, but what is the cost of not providing any training at all?

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-05
Anonymous

This is a double edged sword. Recently, I paid for my own two weeks of training and all of my expenses. My former company wouldn't entertain the idea of even paying me while I was gone.
Amazingly enough, they were surprised when I left soon after returning and tripped over themselves trying to k...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-06
Anonymous

This is a great article. It is so true about job descriptions having not only the laundry list of sys admin skills, but also networking skills and security skills. It is hard for me to fathom putting together a job description like this and ever expecting to find anyone. That is unrealistic to me. ...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-07
Anonymous (2 replies)

One of my previous companies used to provide me a lot of trainings and I served them for almost 7 years (that's really a lot of time in IT industry). The next company that I joined was absolute opposite and hence I didnt even work for one year even though the company was much bigger than the others ...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-09
Anonymous

I think this is going to hit managers like a ton of bricks. The market is heating up and a lot of security positions are being posted out there.
Bottom line- invest in your people and you have a chance of keeping them, fail to invest and you can be assured of not keeping them.
It has to be looked...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-12
Anonymous

My current company provides training on 5 diff firewalls and about 10 or so IDS/IPS platforms to all new hires in a 1 1/2 month span. ...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-09
Anonymous

The cost of 'security training' is the cost of a few good books and the monthly cost of a decent internet connection these days....

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-09
Anonymous

A similar problem would be a lack of decent training. I worked with a medium-sized IT firm that offered training funds as part of their benefits package. The company offered $3000 per year per employee for approved training courses.

...good idea - IN THEORY. The only courses were ever approv...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-11
Anonymous

To the point. I left a copy on my Sr. Mangers desk. ...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-12
H Carvey <keydet89@yahoo.com>

I've provided Windows incident response training...I come on-site, and provide two days of intensive, hands-on training for IT managers and admins. I focus specifically on verifying, identifying, and resolving incidents on Windows systems. I can easily train between 16 and 24 people for the cost o...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-12
Anonymous

Excellent article.

My employer is one those that likes to drop in a new appliance and "learn on the job". Wasn't until one customer forked over money for a "sandbox" environment. It's not much, but for me, it was fantastic. Even though, I had no former training on Nokia IP appliances, a couple ho...

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-13
Anonymous

...so let's cut to the chase .. the prob seems to me that we have some really dumb managers out there. I suggest that the first people sent on training courses are the managers themselves, then they might have half a clue about everything else....

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The Cost of Security Training 2004-11-15
Anonymous

I think a great deal of getting a training budget is in the way you present your case to MGMT. It is one thing to say that training is required to stay current with evolving threats and technologies. However, it is a different ball game to say that training "X" will help realize immediate and futu...

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The Cost of Security Training 2006-01-09
David Ball

It's a sad fact but sometimes the only choice to advance career skills is for the employee to fork out for their own training. I've had the bite the bullet and do this myself in the past. ...

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