So this may go against best security practices but I’ll post it anyways. My server was hacked into today. I pretty much had everything wide open on purpose for just this case. Still, somehow I feel violated that it happened. Even worse I’ve been studying IDS material for preparation of 642-531. Last night I thought [...]

Now that I’ve passed, I want share what I did to prepare. Your mileage may vary, but at least now I know it worked for me. The ideas here aren’t necessarily security specific, but I’m going to use security examples.
The Blueprint
The core of my studying was the lab blueprint from [...]

I passed!!! I’m a Security CCIE now! Excited, relieved, perhaps a bit overwhelmed…crazy.
I took the test yesterday in San Jose and just got my results via email. Thank goodness. I felt pretty good about it this time when I left the test, and it was a loooong day [...]