From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 2 10:59:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A22A1531F for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id KAA11471; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA01667; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:59:42 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA17295; Wed, 2 Jun 99 10:59:40 PDT Message-Id: <3755710C.C32B06F4@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:59:40 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Ceritfication for individuals References: <199906020817.MAA31586@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru> <37556EAB.6101B755@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > ark@eltex.ru wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > nuqneH, > > > > Tekmetrics has announced it. I'd better not trust ICSA. > > IMHO security certification is all bullshit (in RL) but it is going to be > > free with Tekmetrics at least. > > I'd better say to fsck off to potential employer if he asks me if i have > > ICSA certification ;) > > I just poked around the Tekmetrics web site, and it looks pretty good. > If anyone is interested in creating FreeBSD certifications, as a > programmer, system administrator, or security administrator, working > with Tekmetrics to make FreeBSD-specific versions of their generic > UNIX exams would be a good starting point. > > http://www.tekmetrics.com/ (duh!) This topic came up in the -security mailing list, but is related to an occasional discussion here in -advocacy. Tekmetrics has a "reseller" program, where you can sell their certification tests on your own web site. This would certainly be appropriate for the FreeBSD Mall and any other vendor of FreeBSD-related good or services. If possible, I'd like for several of the -advocates to surf over there, look at the trial tests, and perhaps take the UNIX programmer or UNIX system administrator test as their free test, to get a feeling if this is something we'd like to pursue. Of course, if I don't manage to score in the Master UNIX programmer range, their test is OBVIOUSLY flawed. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message