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
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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
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
