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RE: CEH Course - Your thoughts?
From: "Finn, Philip" <Philip.Finn () uscellular com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:33:18 -0500
Personally I took my CEH class with infosec institute and it was awesome. The class goes from 8 am to 11pm for a week the teacher was awesome and extremely knowledgable. I also took there advanced class which was also great. Just my two cents. Phil -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Jason Ross Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:43 PM To: security-basics Subject: Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? My opinion, hold off for SANS.. I'm a C|EH, and I can honestly say that (for me anyway) the course was a tremendous waste of time and money. ( Disclaimer: I did not attend the v6 version, YMMV. ) Not only did the material covered in the class not represent what was asked on the test, but the material was in large part outdated and not really relevant in today's world (example: we covered using Beast to backdoor hosts quite a bit...good luck getting that past any current A/V system without hexing the snot outta the binary, which wasn't even mentioned in the course, let alone taught.) In fact, it was so bad, that myself and my co-worker (who took the course with me) both went to the organization sponsoring the class and made a formal complaint about it. I took advantage of the opportunity because the company was willing to pony up for it but not for a CISSP or even a SANS course (the cost differences are fairly significant). If you have an opportunity to convince your employer to spring for one of the other, it's a much better investment on their part, despite (or perhaps because of... I'll let others debate that) the fact that it requires a higher commitment. For a simple test of the relative "worth" I recommend the following experiment: Go to a job search website of your choice Search for the desired SANS certification, or CISSP, then search for CEH. Note the differences in the types and number of positions posted. As I said, I attended an earlier version, so things may be different...or it may just be that I ended up with a crappy instructor (though I read through all the materials afterwards, and the "dated" comment applies regardless). But for me, it was a real let down, and any time anyone asks me about it, I say so. -- Jason On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM, J5 <lifeisnotamalfunction () googlemail com> wrote:
I will be rounding up my first year as a security analyst soon and my company has offered to send me to a CEH course taught by Dan Garfield and it is held by IT Training Solutions. This is the new v6 course. I feel very comfortable with locating vulnerabilities on the network and exploitation methodologies. I do penetration testing on my job, but it is a very small part of my daily activities. I see many tools listed in the description that I just haven't had the time to go hands
on with.... and some I use extensively. I would like to ask anyone who has attended one of these 5 day courses
to reply with their experiences. I am looking for a lab based environment to experiment with tools I haven't had the opportunity to use. I am already ingrained with CIA, AAA & management aspects of infosec as well as the 'anatomy of an attack.' I want to get to the nitty gritty and not have the same vague overview I get all the time. I really want to spend a solid week focusing on improving my toolkit. Do you feel like this course would be beneficial to me or should I hold off for something else. (SANS, Foundstone, etc)
Current thread:
- CEH Course - Your thoughts? J5 (Aug 21)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Danux (Aug 22)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Jason Ross (Aug 22)
- RE: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Finn, Philip (Aug 25)
- RE: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Ardian Silvano (Aug 22)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Ryan Greenier (Aug 22)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Robert Hudock (Aug 25)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Nikhil Wagholikar (Aug 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? rbarbera (Aug 22)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? James Attard (Aug 25)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Dave Hull (Aug 25)
- RE: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Deepak J. Mathew (Aug 25)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Harshal Mehta (Aug 25)
- Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts? Eddy Alexandre (Aug 25)
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