It is not possible to discriminate against people who have a certification.
It is only possible to discriminate against people who make a point of
telling you they have a certification.
Clueful individuals may have a certification they make known only to
prospective employers who express an inter
Behalf Of Crispin Cowan
Sent: 24 March 2005 08:17
To: j eric townsend
Cc: sc-l@securecoding.org
Subject: Re: [SC-L] certification for engineers/developers?
j eric townsend wrote:
>The main reason I'm looking at certification is defensive -- I've been in
one too many meetings where some
Depending on the specific certification, some do have benefits. Depending
on the degree, some do have benefits. Neither guarantees that an
individual can play a good game, only that they can talk a good game. If
the job requires talking a good game then degrees and certs are great.
I've met way too
j eric townsend wrote:
The main reason I'm looking at certification is defensive -- I've been in one
too many meetings where someone's opinion was given more weight because of
industry certification or advanced degree.
Yeah, I give certifications weight; *negative* weight. The more
"certificatio
. Thanks for the laugh, Jeremy! KRvW]
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SC-L] certification for engineers/developers?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:43:54 -0700
From: Edward Rohwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Edward Rohwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Depending on where you want to go, defiantly look at the CISSP, or one of
the GAIC cert.'
ISC(2), which sponsors the CISSP, co-developed with NSA a CISSP
Concentration called the ISSEP - Information Systems Security
Engineering Professional. The focus is really on the National Security
Agency's way of doing systems security engineering, as reflected in the
SSE-CMM methodology, and in th
Depending on where you want to go, defiantly look at the CISSP, or one of
the GAIC cert.'s Software "engineering" is another subject entirely. Some
people (a lot actually) would argue that SE's are not engineers at all,
since they are not licensed by states or other governmental agencies like
EE's
