[Lvlug] Certified Ethical Hacker

[Bryan Follins]

Want to thank everybody for their comments and help with this Certified Ethical Hacker info.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy [mailto:stealth at thcnet.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 16:40
To: asalh at mindspring.com; The Las Vegas Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Lvlug] Certified Ethical Hacker

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:57:45 -0800, "Bryan Follins" <asalh at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> I would like to ask the group something.  The rave now seems to be to
get a
> Certified Ethical Hacker's certificate when trying to apply for a
security
> analyst position.  Are these certificates worth while or are they just
like
> the MCSE rave??  Has anyone out there studied for one of these
> certificates,
> or know someone who has?  Is it the best way to get intrusion detection
> skills?  If not, what is?  I know one of the ways is to practice, but
what
> other starting points are there to get these skills?
> 
> Bryan
> 
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If you are looking for Security certs, the CISSP isn't a walk in the park.
It's move generic then specialized, but it is also becoming a defacto cert
for some security jobsd.  I've also done the SANS GSEC.  That wasn't all
that easy either.  SANS certs are detailed and pretty good for learning
experiance. 

BUt for IDS word, most definitly the best thing is to practice, setup some
tools, watch the traffic, setup a test network and throw things at it and
see what happens.  Learning firewalls and understanding packet flows is
also a big help.