I'm beginning to get ready to change jobs. At the moment I'm responsible for implementing, maintaining and improving a bunch of secure standalone LAN's. I'm very lucky to be doing the job I currently do as I've got no formal IT qualifications, I just happened to grow up around computers.
Anyway, to the point. The company I work for will pay for me to attend some IT courses as a kind of thank you before I leave them. I've seen A+ and CCNA mentioned so far as good courses. After looking at the A+ syllabus it looks a bit basic for the experience I've gathered so far. I was looking at starting with Network+ as a refresher and then going onto Security+ with a bit of CCNA and CCDA thrown in for good measure. As an after thought I was going to look at doing an MCP sitting the Server 2003 exam.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for course bearing in mind that I'm hoping to move into the world of designing, implementing and possibly pen testing secure networks?
As a side note, has anyone done the Certified Ethical Hacker course? I'm not looking at doing it just yet as I need to get a bit of experience prior to doing this, just wanting to get a feel for it.
Bit of a bizzare first post. Should of got on here earlier seeing as I've been watchin Hak. 5 since the beginning. Ah well 8)
Shifty