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Re: Security Expert Certificates
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney () canola-jones com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:50:31 -0800
At 04:25 PM 3/26/2004 +0100, jan.muenther () nruns com wrote:
Having a cert like the CISSP doesn't hurt you personally
I think that in some cases it DOES hurt you. It says "you are capable of passing through a mindless selection filter inside a large organization". Given no other data than "some security person with a CISSP", I think that a lot of folks assume "hmmm, no clue, patience to take the test, way too mellow because they were able to wrap their brains around the test instead of the way things really are". Now I know people who have CISSP's, and some of them are really good, but most of the good ones have some other redeeming attribute. The certification never adds to their rep. I understand that large organizations use the acronyms as a job selection filter. I can imagine that's logical in some situations. Given a choice between some punk who has Fry's listed on their resume and claims to know Perl, and some kid in a new suit with a CISSP, I'd think about hiring the CISSP, sure. My advice would be to not try to wave it around as street cred ;-) _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://www.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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- Re: Security Expert Certificates, (continued)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates Anton A. Chuvakin (Mar 30)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates Rodney Thayer (Mar 30)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates Steve W. Manzuik (Mar 30)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates jan . muenther (Mar 30)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates Anton A. Chuvakin (Mar 30)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates Jay D. Dyson (Mar 26)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates Steve W. Manzuik (Mar 26)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates Ken Pfeil (Mar 26)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates sullo (Mar 26)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates Stephen Scharf (Mar 26)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates jan . muenther (Mar 26)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates Rodney Thayer (Mar 26)
- RE: Security Expert Certificates Robert E. Lee (Mar 27)
- Re: Security Expert Certificates jan . muenther (Mar 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Security Expert Certificates jan . muenther (Mar 30)