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As somebody who has written numerous textbooks for Course Technology (for
whom Chubb was a long-time customer) I had the chance to visit some of their
facilities and talk to some students about three years ago. Although the
institution is geared toward "quick production" of technical staff, its
programs do offer good information, decently equipped labs, and usually also
include good instructors. Hopefully, this means your own experience will be
both postivie and educational.
When it comes to picking network security training vendors, the
time-honored methods include trolling message groups to look for spontaneous
comments and reviews, talking to recent participants/graduates from such
programs to learn more about their experiences (preferably from the same
classes you'll be attending, same instructors, etc.), and asking for
a money-back guarantee if you start the training and find it's not to your
liking or doesn't meet your needs.
As to hiring of freshy graduated students, indeed you can find some cases
where these things happen, but seldom do such graduates start work full-time
in information security (unless they have prior work experience and
knowledge in that field). Most such people start in help desk, tech support,
or junior/entry-level IT jobs as network technicians, junior system or
network administrators, and so forth. But with security part of all such
jobs nowadays, your training should stand you in good stead.
As to preparing yourself to get a job in network security, once you land
your first position you should do everything you can to learn and practice
security on the job, join a professional infosec organization like
ISSA, volunteer your services to charities or schools that need security help and do everything you can to up your experience level and learning in this area. I'd also urge you to consider getting Security+
certified, and then moving into the SANS GIAC cert program,
or working toward the CISSP credential www.isc2.org.
Over time, you should be able to slowly, but surely work yourself into a
full-time information security position.
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