Re: Certification in Web application security



On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:30 AM, whitehat <whitehaat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would like to do a Certification in Web Application Security.
As I wanted to do GWAS before but it is no more as GWAS now and STAR
instead.

GWAS was never a certification, but instead a certificate.
Certificates usually followed two-day courses, and meant that you had
a grasp on the small subset of the security world presented in the
course. It's confusing, I know, especially with the similarity of the
names.

Are you looking for learning on the development side or the penetration side?
--
Jarrod Frates, GAWN

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