Re: INFOSEC: Certifiably Certified

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Eric Lee Green <eric () badtux org>

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 11:44 pm, InfoSec News wrote:
> eyes of a third party is foolish. Haphazardly hiring security
> personnel on the basis of a certification for which there is not
> even a standard (such as ISO 17799) is a reckless endangerment of
> the hiring organization's resources. Furthermore, given the
> interconnected nature of the Internet, in some cases, this has the
> real possibility of adversely affecting security across the Internet
> in general.

Heh. Something I've been saying for years.

> That having been said, I'm happy to announce that I'm going into the
> certification business. If anyone cares to send me $500 and copies
> of

I already beat him to it, in July 2001. See http://badtux.org/pooe.pdf
for your own free certificate :-).

PS: POOE stands for "Poker Of Overinflated Egos", where said
"overinflated egos" belong to people who have enough certification
letters on their business cards to write a novel with. Strange, how
some of these people can become rather pompous in their insistence
that nobody uncertified could possibly be competent.

-- 
Eric Lee Green          GnuPG public key at http://badtux.org/eric/eric.gpg
          mailto:eric () badtux org  Web: http://badtux.org/eric



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