From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 2 22:10: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tas5-atm.tampabay.rr.com (tas5-atm.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.0.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EC714F0C for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmyers1@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from k6400 ([24.92.13.191]) by tas5-atm.tampabay.rr.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8+RoadRunner) with SMTP id BAA15983; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 01:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004d01bead62$71406b40$bf0d5c18@tampabay.rr.com> From: "Bob Myers" To: "Wes Peters" Cc: References: <199906020817.MAA31586@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru> <37556EAB.6101B755@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Security Ceritfication for individuals Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:42:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just FYI, the Tekmetrics tests for C and/or C++ are generally regarded as useless, or, even worse, just plain wrong. There was a full discussion of this issue in some of the C/C++ newsgroups a while back that you may want to review. ----- Original Message ----- From: Wes Peters To: Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Security Ceritfication for individuals > 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!) > > Try out the Dilbert "fun exam" for a sample of what their test > procedures look like. > > -- > "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-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message