I don't think its 100% subjective. In a security course, if the training
material goes against established security practices, it is an indication
that the course is of questionable quality. So far, I have not seen any
examples of any of the EC-Council training materials teaching students what
is wrong.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital> wrote:
> Hi Ajay,
>
> On 12/09/2015 03:29 PM, Ajay R Ramjatan wrote:
>
>> That was a long read on attrition but it still does not say with
>> verifiable evidence whether the certification programmes of the
>> EC-Council (Certified Ethical Hacker for example) are of worthless value
>> in the real world or not. SM provided a link that had criticism of
>> EC-Council as an employer by a few former employees. The attrition
>> criticism does not talk about the 'worthiness' of the training
>> programmes of the EC-Coucil.
>>
>>
> Worthiness is subjective here. Someone looking to be a "hacker" on paper
> would surely jump on this boat. Someone wishing to climb the ladder at work
> might join the flock if his/her company 'trusts' the programme. Someone who
> really intends to learn stuffs, will just do some research on his own.
>
> I was reading this
> http://www.ethicalhack3r.co.uk/ec-council-ceh-unethical-behavior and
> while I can't assess the authenticity of whatever is being said there, I
> just find EC-Council being a big marketing organization rather than a real
> council of E-Commerce consultants. My 2 cents here. As I said in my blog
> post too, I leave it to people to read and decide.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ish Sookun
>
> I drink coffee & manage Linux servers
> for lexpress.mu.
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 10 2015 - 06:26:42 PST