Scholarships for Security Certification

[jnn at synfin.org (John Newman)]

> On Sep 14, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:10:58PM -0400, John Newman wrote:
>> These "ethical hacker" degree programs are, IMO, basically a scam.
>> I've screened ppl for interviews at work and basically learned to ignore
>> anyone whose only significant qualification is one of these programs...
>> 
>> Amazing how they can get certified and not even know the diff 
>> between the passwd & shadow file, or su vs sudo, or the most 
>> BASIC shit... 
>> 
> 
> It is highly profitable to be CISO (chief info security officer),
> read that salaries are 1M euro/year. Probably such positions require as
> many certificates as possible.
> 

Yeah I'm sure a lot of CISOs have their CISSP.

I doubt many bother with any of the shady "ethical hacker" 
crap, but I could be totally wrong. I don't see a whole lot of 
value in the CISSP either, personally. 

I do have my CCNA from like 15 years ago, and I'm also 
Sun E-10k certified, though I've never touched such 
a device in my life ;). It was a requirement that a certain
number of employees get the cert at a previous job 
for them to maintain some reseller bullshit or something,
I don't remember ... ;)

Fucking classes are useless. If you want to study, get a EE or
CS degree (or one of the newer mash ups that wasn't around
when I went to college, like a BS in Computer Engineering).

Obviously it's not a vocational thing like the ethical bullshit, but 
probably more valuable. IME best ppl are often total autodidacts.