Re: CEH or OSCP?

[David Schekaiban <david () schekaiban com>]

VK,

As far as my experience in CEH (I've been teaching this course for about
1 year), you don't need to be a professional or even work in the
security front of your company. The course (typically 1 week from 9 to
5, aprox. 40 hours) starts with a very basic introduction, going from
"what is hacking?" all the way to "why, how, who's" of the hacking
process.

We review a lot of tools and help out students realize what kind of
threats and the impact this can have on an enterprise. This is not a
network defense course btw. 

OSCP is a great course but you really need to know what you are doing,
because it is not very clear on the basic stuff, although as someone
already mentioned, the videos and labs are amazing and you get to code
some very useful programs and utilities. 

My 2 cents. Have a nice day.


David Schekaiban, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CEH, ECSA
david () codigoverde com


On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:44 +0530, Vaibhav Kaushal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am really interested in hacking. I know I can learn on my own but I 
> would like to have a course guiding me properly rather than wandering 
> here and there for some stupid material.
>
> I think C|EH is great but the OSCP is way better (I prefer being 
> practical). I went through the websites of both and as far as I have 
> understood, CEH is only for the professionals working in organizations. 
> Since I am just an undergraduate student as of now, I think i will not 
> be allowed by EC Council.
>
> OSCP looks so much more interesting, challenging and I want to take that 
> one. Does someone know about any such requirememnt as put out by EC 
> Council for the CEH (that I must be a professional) ? I want to build a 
> career in cyber security.
>
> I did not see that there is any email address provided on the OSCP 
> website. Can some one here tell me how to contact them so tha I could 
> ask them about this?
>
> reagrds,
>
> VK
>
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