A certification is certainly a plus a get to the door for an interview (since the door to the interview is usually (wo)manned by non-tecchnical HR people) and to impress non-technical people. Anyone touting a certification to a technical person should be shown the door since they still don't realise how little technical expertise is actually involved in a certification. I am certainly not belittiling the efforts behind your GIAC if that's what you have, but if you think it is really worth that much it is wrong.
Hint: Compare how much of technical advancement has happened in the security field because of published GIAC papers compared to real technical papers coming out of academia. On 11/26/05, Exibar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So am I any smarter for having my CISSP over a GIAC?... I dont think so.. > > but the employeers seem to thing so =) > > > > > Just to chime in a personal opinion.... The GIAC exams (NOT their new > Silver level, but the Gold level) is worth more to me than CISSP. Why do > you ask. CISSP only requires you to take an exam, pass, and you get your > cert. The GIAC GOLD certs require you to write a paper, of varying length > per cert, and pass it and 1 or 2 exams in order to get yoru cert. > It's one thing to be able to go to a week long class, brush up on a few > points here and there, take an exam and pass to get a cert, CISSP. > It's another copletely different thing to be able to comprehend the > information enough to be able to write a 20 - 75 page paper on the subject, > have it read and graded by "experts" in the field, and then get the cert. > GIAC > Even though the GIAC certs generally cover a narrow topic compared to > CISSP, you have to know your subject quite well in order to be able to pass > that cert. Forget about the silver cert for GIAC... just another exam or > two to pass.... > > IF I was interviewing someone new for a security position, I'd certainly > take this into account before hireing them. Along with many other factors > too, of course. > > Exibar > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
