Re: [SAGE] CISSP Certification Penetration?

[Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Jeff Tyler wrote:
> Not sure I follow that, there is still a strong personal experience
> requirement.  I'm not saying that an unqualified person can not get
> a CISSP, given the existence of boot camps and the like there is
> always the danger that a few folks who test well and know little
> can slip through but I think on the whole that we defend the
> certification pretty well.

Hrm. I'm thinking of a recent suggestion by a CISSP on the full-disclosure
mailing list that everybody "take down" a person's site...

IMHO, you're quintessentially suggesting an unvalidated trust structure,
where membership in an organization is presumed to provide certain
qualities that are frankly unverifiable.

cheers!
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