Something I plan to do is post items relating to my maintaining my CEH status here, so that I can then point the EC2 to this blog to verify my on-going efforts.
Saturday 14 May 2016
Certified (and Certifiable?)
As I wrote last time, I sat (and passed) the exam for the CEH. I wanted to share to the 0 other people who follow this blog a piccie of something that arrived in the snail-mail this week.
Something I plan to do is post items relating to my maintaining my CEH status here, so that I can then point the EC2 to this blog to verify my on-going efforts.
Something I plan to do is post items relating to my maintaining my CEH status here, so that I can then point the EC2 to this blog to verify my on-going efforts.
Sunday 21 February 2016
Certified Ethical Hacker
Late last year my (now former) employer, TAFE NSW, advertised a bunch of courses in a wide variety of areas, including many in Info Tech. Oh, one other important point – they were "free – as in beer".
As well as a few that I could have skipped the classes, sat and passed the exam – such as the Microsoft 70-410 (Installing, Configuring and Managing Servers) & 70-411 (Administering Windows Servers) – and a couple of others that may have been interesting were the CCNA 1 & 2 courses, but what really caught my eye was the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (v9).
I threw my hat in for the course, and was advised in January that I would be doing that course in April.
I contacted the co-ordinator on the day the first session started and asked if there was any space due to "no-shows" in that. There were. So I moved from April to February.
I sat the exam last weekend – and passed. Not "brilliantly", but there were two of us (out of a class of about 12) that sat, and there was a 100% pass-rate :) There was the option of taking the exam voucher (valid for 12 months) and studying an sitting later – but knowing me, if I didn't do the exam there and then, it probably wasn't going to happen ;)
So, there you have it – I am Certified (and probably 'certifiable' ;)
That's the first of a few certifications I wanted to get under my belt. The GWAPT: GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester and maybe the (ISC)2 CISSP – although I'm not 100% sure that the latter is the direction I wish to head in.
We shall see. In the meantime, I have taken on a Technical Project Management role, which, not really the direction I wanted to take, looks really interesting, and can lead to some real long-term benefits to thousands of people across Australia.
As well as a few that I could have skipped the classes, sat and passed the exam – such as the Microsoft 70-410 (Installing, Configuring and Managing Servers) & 70-411 (Administering Windows Servers) – and a couple of others that may have been interesting were the CCNA 1 & 2 courses, but what really caught my eye was the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (v9).
I threw my hat in for the course, and was advised in January that I would be doing that course in April.
I contacted the co-ordinator on the day the first session started and asked if there was any space due to "no-shows" in that. There were. So I moved from April to February.
I sat the exam last weekend – and passed. Not "brilliantly", but there were two of us (out of a class of about 12) that sat, and there was a 100% pass-rate :) There was the option of taking the exam voucher (valid for 12 months) and studying an sitting later – but knowing me, if I didn't do the exam there and then, it probably wasn't going to happen ;)
So, there you have it – I am Certified (and probably 'certifiable' ;)
That's the first of a few certifications I wanted to get under my belt. The GWAPT: GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester and maybe the (ISC)2 CISSP – although I'm not 100% sure that the latter is the direction I wish to head in.
We shall see. In the meantime, I have taken on a Technical Project Management role, which, not really the direction I wanted to take, looks really interesting, and can lead to some real long-term benefits to thousands of people across Australia.
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