Alexander MacLennan wrote: > A certificate is intended to give you the skills to operate a > particular > product or suite of products. The certificate may or may not > teach you > the fundamentals behind the product.
Actually that only applies to vendor certs like MCSE. Both CISSP and GIAC certs are in a different class of certs that apply to technologies, not products, i.e. information security, auditing, and even in the case of CEH (which I would not touch with a 10-foot pole), hacking. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
