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Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost
From: "Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf () matasano com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:00:59 -0500
How do you plan on solving the problems the CISSP has? 1. People will "teach to the test".That is always the case with any test/certification. Sometimes people
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2. Certs get stale fast.No argument here. Technology is a fast-paced industry...
... You need to ask yourself what the purpose of the cert is, and then ask yourself whether the process for acquiring the cert achieves that purpose. Most certs are hiring tools. A "top 1% of the industry" cert is not a particularly valuable hiring tool. If the only goal was to make someone genuinely hard, so that passing it was an accomplishment for almost anyone in the industry, this would be an easy problem. We would just poll for everyone's hardest interview questions. But that's not the goal. The goal is something will scale and will have business value. So far, everything that has tried to achieve both those goals has either withered on the vine or been corrupted. -- --- Thomas H. Ptacek // matasano security read us on the web: http://www.matasano.com/log _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost, (continued)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost Thomas Ptacek (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Dave Aitel (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Andre Gironda (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity Lindley James R (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost Weston, David (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost nnp (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost Paul Wouters (Sep 11)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity andgetting lost matthew wollenweber (Sep 11)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Darren Spruell (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Thomas Ptacek (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Bruce Ediger (Sep 10)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Jason Alexander (Sep 11)
- Re: Information security certifications diversity and getting lost Andre Gironda (Sep 11)