[Dailydave] Information security certifications diversity and getting lost

[Darren Spruell]

On 9/10/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/07, "Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf at matasano.com> wrote:
> > How do you plan on solving the problems the CISSP has?
> >
> > 1. People will "teach to the test".
>
> That is always the case with any test/certification.  Sometimes people
> don't really care about about the topics, just about the financial
> reward it is presumed to bring them by having the cert.

Not always the case; SANS decoupled their educational institute from
the GIAC certification group, so the SANS training courses are not
simply boot camps to help someone prepare for the GIAC cert. Not that
SANS training tracks don't help with preparedness, but they're not a
"training for the cert" shop.

DS