January 09, 2012
Sharp-eyed reader DigitalDolphin forwarded me snippets of an email thread on the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) certification from EC-Council or International Council of E-Commerce Consultants.
Chief,
You were dead on about the CEH cert. I think you mentioned it in SecurityMonkey Podcast #1 a while back.
Somebody on a security list recently did some research on these guys.
1) EC-Council or International Council of E-Commerce Consultants is a Nevada incorporated company and has NO office in New York as they claim. Pay them a visit and there is absolutely NOTHING there. Any enquiry called is always met with one response - please email. Try checking their claims before you invest in their products.
2) EC-Council had announced a university earlier this year at Wyoming. They claim the certifications would get credits for their masters program. In my opinion this is a diploma paper mill at best that will have its license revoked sooner or later as per the legislature revoking all unaccredited programs.
3) In checking their members list, it seems that most of them are fictitious or hardly involved. I don't think renaming the only program they sell is going to fool the government for long.
4) Check this link and compare it with this link - Its the same thing. What is the value for existing CEH if they are going to certify some of the candidates as CNDA? Oopsies. Everything is the same. There is no alteration. Its not just money here... If some of us are going to be CEH and some CNDA, wont one destroy the value of the other? They are out to squeeze every last drop of money they can - think about it... To do LPT, you must have attended training. Check their website here and see for yourself.
5) And the best for last! What do you get for your $2500US?
- Plaque with your name on it
- LPT License card
- Resource CD-ROMS
- LPT T-shirts
- LPT caps
- LPT Certificate
- LPT Lapel Pin
- Membership ID
6) Why dont we go to archive.org to the wayback machine (as shown in CEH course) and look at EC-Council's site. ECSA / ECSP/ ECAD / LPT / etc have been announced more than a year ago. Why are there no certifications coming out yet?
The funniest part is that nobody else claims LPT is prestigious - nor is there an industry demand or recognition. LPT will grant you the license (to do what???). Please mail them and ask what the license stands for?
Just food for thought! Love the blog and make more podcasts please! And tell Scrap he is a wanker!
DigitalDolphin
Wow. Well, that is certainly food for thought regarding the CEH program. Have any of you checked out the program? I've not been a big fan of the curriculum. Scrap actually went through the course and the only thing he really liked was the CDs that they handed out.
Wow - $2500 for CDs that are assembled from tool found on the net.
No thanks.
~ Chief.
Source :
http://it.toolbox.com/
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