I wrote an article for SearchSecurity on the subject of certification related training in Universities, specifically the ISC(2)’s CISSP. I opted for the “against” viewpoint, mostly because I think the CISSP should be synonymous with experience, and partially because it made a for a great discussion.
The article: Opinion: ‘Student’ CISSPs put cert’s value in jeopardy
I must say, as far as article writing goes, this has been my favourite one so far. I was given freedom to take it anywhere I wanted, and my editor really did awesome work. I’m going to pay attention to that site and try and make some more contributions.
Apologies for the lack of posting, I’ve been quite busy with family, work, and more article writing. I have several Unix performance related articles up over on IBM developerWorks:
Update: I didn’t realize there’s a discussion forum on the SearchSecurity site, and there are a lot of opinions being posted, some for, some against, and even the odd personal attack! I’m impressed. Now just to find a more controversial topic.