Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?

Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by markoman on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:07PM (#31876373)

I'm thinking about getting into pen-testing and eventually getting an OSCP. Would you mind offering a few words about why you left the pen-testing field? Also, do you have a CEH or do you recommend bypassing it in favor of the OSCP?

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Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by robcohen on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:04PM (#31877789)

CEH is literally useless, I used to have it because I did DoD. That’s the only reason to do it.

I got out of pentesting because no one follows your recommendations. I could give 40 recommendations after doing a pentest, come back a year later and none of them would have been implemented.

People don’t care about security—-it’s why everything is broken and it’s getting worse.

I moved into Distributed Ledger Technology because I think it could help solve security issues people face daily in a way where they cannot mess up. That’s the idea anyway.

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