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RE: OPST vs. CEH
From: "Craig, William (Atlanta, GA)" <craigw01 () unisourcelink com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:35:25 -0500
Yes, the CEH or Certified Ethical Hacker is similar to the OSSTMM cert. It dos not cover the business side of pen testing and the OSSTMM dos not teach you enough to become a good pen tester ether. However the CEH version 3 is far more superior in measuring the true skills of a Pen tester. You are required to now and understand some form of computer language such as Cxxx / Perl / visual basic etc. You are required to understand how buffer overflow works and be able to reverse engineer code to find the line where the overflow took place. You are required to be able to look at some code and be able to identify what exploit it is etc. You are required to know and understand all forms of viruses and worms along with the standard components of pen testing. You are required to understand hashing of password. And be able to use a calculator to break down passwords. You are required to have performed and understand the following techniques session hijacking, spoofing, dll injections etc. The old version of CEH 2.3 was pretty easy. However the version 3.0 is not for the fly bye test taker. I have chosen to take both exams. You will need knowledge from both to become well rounded. My 2 cents come from experience only. I'm not part of any of the two groups. Good luck with your choice -----Original Message----- From: kenzo [mailto:kenzo_chin () hotmail com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:54 AM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: OPST vs CEH I'm thinking about taking one of these certs. OPST (OSSTMM PROFESSIONAL SECURITY TESTER) or CEH (certified ethical hacker) I've read about the two, and they seem to be kind of the same thing. I know that some people in here were talking about the opst, but what about the ceh? Has anyone taking the CEH or both? Please let me know. thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- RE: OPST vs. CEH Craig, William (Atlanta, GA) (Feb 06)
- Re: OPST vs. CEH Kenzo (Feb 07)
- RE: OPST vs. CEH Pete Herzog (Feb 07)