topic Re: Exam Workshops in Welcome

Exam Workshops

Ghost_Ryder — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:45:45 GMT

What days of the week are the exam workshops if you volunteer to help with exam questions?

Re: Exam Workshops

TrickyDicky — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:25:51 GMT

The workshops used be scheduled over weekends. I presume they still are.

Re: Exam Workshops

ToniHahn — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:16:54 GMT

Ghost Ryder -

I work in the Exam group and am one of the hosts for the workshops. Currently the majority of the workshops are scheduled during the week. I can't guarantee what day but usually M-W. However, that can change. It all depends on the availability when our event planner is planning the locations.

Please don't hesitate to ask any other questions

Toni Hardy

Re: Exam Workshops

MAK14 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 04:43:22 GMT

As an International volunteer, I would like to know the location of these workshops. Please note I am based in EMEA region and asking this just to prepare well in time.

Re: Exam Workshops

ToniHahn — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:27:16 GMT

Currently they are in the Tampa, Florida region. However, they can be held anywhere in the world.

Re: Exam Workshops

ToniHahn — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:36:50 GMT

They are all held in Tampa, Fl.

Re: Exam Workshops

rslade — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:09:00 GMT

So crystal_waston (Newcomer I) posted a new(-ish) reply in Welcome on 10-11-2018 04:33 AM (EDT?) in the (ISC)Â² Community.

> Subject: Re: Exam Workshops
> The (ISC)2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) is a terrific
> entry-level information security certification, and it is the ideal precursor
> for the much sought after Certified Information Systems Security Professional
> (CISSP).

Then, almost immediately, she (or some bot minder) edited it to read, "As an
International volunteer, I would like to know the location of these workshops.
Thanks"

@CraginS, I think she's trying to mess with your head 🙂

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It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere,
made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the
brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you
didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things
happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog
and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then
going out and doing terrible things to other ordinary people.
- `Jingo,' Terry Pratchett
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Re: Exam Workshops

CraginS — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:45:28 GMT

@rslade wrote:
So crystal_waston (Newcomer I) posted a new(-ish) reply in Welcome on 10-11-2018 04:33 AM (EDT?) in the (ISC)Â² Community.
Then, almost immediately, she (or some bot minder) edited it to read, "As an
International volunteer, I would like to know the location of these workshops.
Thanks"

@CraginS, I think she's trying to mess with your head 🙂

It appears there may be a real security specialist Crystal Waston who works for Black Ice. See

https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-waston-93a34591/

If our @crystal_waston is indeed a bot then the bot-minder needs to do some new AI programming and not play games with edits for subterfuge.

If, however, this is the Black Ice employee or another live human of that name,

I think we have done more than enough to draw out the live person to respond.

A significant clue to botness is that both @crystal_waston and @nancy_perez have shown the same comment patterns here.

Also, note that her edited statement is word for word from @MAK14 comment of 2-28-18, only two posts earlier in that same thread. It looks like crystal looped back to mine the thread for the edit. Botness score continues to rise.

As for the first try, which you captured for us, it came from Udemy:

https://www.udemy.com/isc2-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-part-22/

"Description
The (ISC)2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) is a terrific entry-level information security certification, and it is the ideal precursor for the much sought after Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

This well-known, global IT security certification offers instant credibility. And it’s an excellent way to expand your cybersecurity knowledge — particularly if you’re in a hands-on, operational IT role or you’re building a foundation in information security."

Re: Exam Workshops

ToniHahn — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:54:15 GMT

Yea I thought that was weird as well. I bet you are right

Re: Exam Workshops

CraginS — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:35:26 GMT

Toni @ToniHahn ,

See Outing Nancy Perez and Crystal Waston in Member Support.

Re: Exam Workshops

rslade — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 01:51:00 GMT

> CraginS (Contributor III) posted a new reply in Welcome on 10-12-2018 03:35 PM in the (ISC)Â² Community :

> See Outing Nancy Perez and Crystal Waston in Member Support.

The Stepford CISSPs ...

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rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
Code discipline had grown lax among the signal troops of the
German 5th Army ... and one Lieutenant Jaeger was detailed to
stiffen it. He knew what should be done and issued numerous
orders to do it. Unfortunately, he had overlooked the
circumstance that the German codebooks did not include his name,
which therefore had to be spelled out letter by letter every time
he affixed it to an order. This was frequently ... Jaeger was
beloved by his adversaries because he kept them up to date with
code changes, and it was with genuine regret that they saw his
name disappear from the German traffic.
- David Kahn, `The Codebreakers'
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