TacAck – My security journey!

Hello All,

It’s been a while since my 2nd attempt ( about a week ) and i’m still wondering what went wrong. Yes, i failed my second attempt . What made it even worse was the fact that like my previous attempt, i flunked in both the OEQ section and the lab section. I guess that’s what makes this so hard for me to digest.

I was hoping to atleast clear the lab section if not for the crazy OEQs . But to be honest, i’m not sure what went wrong. I thought i’d done all the right prep, done my share of vol-1 labs , vol -2 labs. I might not be super-smart, but i’ve tried to squeeze every minute of my daily schedule to work on this for the last 2 years.

That’s what makes it disheartening.

I know there are some who have attempted many times and yet failed, but what i badly want to know is why i failed. Since cisco doesn’t tell us why, there’s fat chance of that happening.

Overall, i still think taking this positively is the right way to go for me, but that’s going to take sometime. Right now, i’m still a little down about the whole thing. But , one thing is for certain, i’m not taking another lab anytime soon. I want to master each and every topic before i even think of going for another attempt.

Secondly, i WILL not do dumps no matter how many times i flunk this. I hate dumps. I do not think people who do dumps deserve their CCIE digits. I don’t care if i become a ccie at 67 , but no dumps.

My plan of doing some tutorials is still on, but at the moment, i honestly don’t know when i’m going to be starting it. It will be soon though ( within the first 2 weeks of January ) .

Sorry to go emo on you, but since this blog reflects my CCIE-sec journey, so i put this blogpost in too.

Cheers,
TacACK

Hello All,

I’m hoping to launch a new project , for which i’m holding some test-runs very soon. I will be taking on a  topic in the CCIE-sec blueprint and i’ll be holding a full 5-6 class on it. Again, i’m not a professional and this is going to be the first time i’m going to be doing something like this. This trial-run is designed so that i can judge my strenghts , weaknesses , etc.

For this, i would like to request 2 ccie-sec candidates ( the ideal audience would be people who are just starting out with their CCIE-sec study ) , to be my guinea pigs . This will be a 5-6 hour session and i will try and cover as much about the topic as possible with detailed slides , labs and explanation. I will also have sometime reserved for questions/doubts that you might like to throw at me. I would be super happy if you can maybe spare the allotted time in your busy-schedule and take a seat in my e-class. Also, what i’m looking for is feedback on how the experience could be improved, etc.

Of course, all of this is free and i’m really looking forward to meeting you online and having a wonderful discussion about a CCIE-sec topic. If you’re interested , you can either shoot me an e-mail at tacack at tacack.com , or you can leave a comment to this post.

Cheers,

TacACK

Hello All,

I spent a couple of hours tooling with FTP inspection on the ASA today. To be honest, prior to today, i didn’t know how exactly things worked. Anyways , after doing some study i now feel pretty confident about the technology , so i recorded a small video to share it with the rest of the ccie-sec community. Here it is!

Please feel free to contact me by either leaving comments to this post or sending me an email ( tacack at tacack dot com ). I’d really appreciate it if you could maybe point out some mistakes in my explanation/understanding.

Take care and have a great weekend!

TacACK