Scholarships for Security Certification

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Thu Sep 14 05:59:18 PDT 2017


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.
 



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