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Thereal_ba wrote: »

King Erauno wrote: »

i just got my palo alto certification - PCNSE6 - Palo Alto certified network security engineer. it was easy and its the equivalent of a CCNP in security (which i already have)

Palo alto is the future in security.

whats makes it superior?

I wouldn't call PA superior overall, but their management platform is better than Cisco. And well so are centralized management platforms for Juniper SRX and Checkpoint (better than Cisco). Performance wise, Cisco is better. Damn near all of them are Linux boxes on the backend with different chipsets and asics (other than Checkooint variations e.g. Nokia).

Other than that, Palo Alto networks is a player staying in their lane. It's a relatively small company with a couple of buildings. They moved into Yahoos old buildings 2 years back. Their major selling point is that they are focused on firewalls. So it's a laser focus for the entire company vs. companies with business units that do firewall products. This focus puts them ahead in their lane like Riverbed cut into and took over the WAN Optimization market so Cisco is (feature depth-wise) playing catch up in both of those lanes. PA along with Checkpoint lead the way for next gen firewall products mainly because their mgmt platforms are so scalable vs Cisco who's major advantage has been performance and but weak point is enterprise management. But Cisco did buy Source Fire which is going to add to their depth to make their firewalls "next gen firewalls" like Checkpoint and PA. The drawback and irony of it all is that "next gen" features (ips, scanning, automated response to VMs, etc) take so much fine tuning, impede performance, and throw so many false positives (sec threat alerts) that people end up turning most of that ? off. As long as they have a cluster of firewalls performing well, a bank of web caches, load balancers, and some inline sec scanning tools most businesses are happy.

PA is partnering with other players like A10 to bring integrated solutions so there are some emerging things coming down the pipe. Depending on what's needed I guess it could be superior......for a particular customer.

Also, deployment wise (depth of integrated sec features aside) PA isn't doing anything any of the other companies aren't. The way their firewalls work are pretty much the same as everyone else's...clusters, failover pairs, blah blah. Cisco clustering is currently more scalable than PAs though (but they function damn near identical as far as how they handle network traffic).

To wrap it all up......know them all and how what fits where....and you can sell any of them to get that bread.

King_sorrow wrote: »

Going to drop the PDFs after work

Thanks

Links to my small collection of cert books on dropbox

It has CCNA sec+ and ceh and ccnp books

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1g6igzd7izlt0k/AABaq53vIqZ9wfpzXzV2SYj6a?dl=0

dnyce215 wrote: »

I'm still trying to get a help desk gig

I gave up trying , my plan was to get the CCENT cert and an internship this summer but these summer classes been kicking my ass the past 7 weeks

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

King Erauno wrote: »

caddo man wrote: »

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

aye ? the NET+ you'll be wasting your time. just finish up the CCNA cert and get the SEC+ if you really want it. you could also just get the CCNA security if you want to go the security route.

Security is my eventual path. But I want to get some network experience first. I actually like Networking. I ? around with Packet tracer and GNS3 just trying to figure out different scenarios. I am naturally curious about how things work.

I haven't been in here in awhile...I see a lot of ya'll studying for the CCNA... I just started myself...studying the CCNA Routing and Switching study guide....look like this is gonna be hell.

Mr Popo wrote: »

caddo man wrote: »

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

So you got the CCNA before the Security+..Props.....I got my Sec+ and just starting the CCNA.....the CCNA is hell compared to Sec+

how hard was the sec+ exam? i took the intro sec class at school and got the testout sec pro cert but I want the Comptia joint

Anybody familiar with Ghost? Need a little enlightenment (basic overview, experience, similar programs, usefulness) i downloaded the pdf and started skimming, potential contact offer coming up

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/symantec_ghost_solution_suite/2.5/manuals/Ghost_imp_guide.pdf

Ok i got you
So is there an option to have the perrmissions built in to the image also?
Or is it just used to deploy

im taking my net plus in a couple of weeks the teacher condensed two books into chapters of pp slides i can drop a lank if anybody is interested

I will learn IPv6 just for the test and that is it. All of the dudes I know that do networking sitting on calculators for IPs.

http://examsforall.com/

Here you can download free practice tests for such certifications as MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, A+, Network+, Security+, CCNA, CCNP, and so on. All tests on this site have been created with VCE Exam Simulator. Dont buy the one on the site. There is a workaround that I found to download the trial version of VCE.

I thought I dropped it here last week but I cant find my link.