Re: CREST or TIGER?

Hi Craig,


look like you misinterpreted most of what I said or somehow, I did not explain myself enough clearly. So let me rephrase.

"penetration1_googlemail.com" talked about being taken seriously and I was arguing that certification and studies was not what I use to make an opinion on competency level among security professional. I never said it was crap. My own experiences prove certifications/studies were absolutely not a perfect match with people competency. In your case, the hole thing (publications, books, certifications, etc) would prove to anyone you have large and proven competency. Your case is quite different from the one who only did one or two certs and nothing else really related to security.

As I said, I found certifications and studies really useful when dealing with external people. It's not a perfect and/or always fare system but it do help external people unable to measure themselves security professional competency (clients, RH, etc). I guess a better system would have to be free and complex while covering every aspect of security professional abilities in order to be a really effective measurement program. But I doubt this could ever be done.

Everything I said was without any pretension and signed has being my own opinion. Still, for all those reason, my opinion does not change. My only hope is to make the latest understood correctly.

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Danny Fullerton
Founder
Mantor Organization


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