Ask HN: How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ?

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Post by mshenoy4573 » Wed, Apr 07, 2010, 2:50 PM UTC

   I am a fresh graduate and not much of a programmer.
 I love the Unix environment though and have been hacking

around with the likes of Solaris and Ubuntu poring over the plethora of documentations available. I seek to attain a certification in say Solaris 10 and also probably Red hat which is more commercial. But I have come across these ethical hacking certifications which I found to be rather expensive. But I need fellow hacker opinions on how I should go about these certifications. Are these legit and do they have placements ? I intend to make a career in network security. Please advice

Re: Ask HN: How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ?

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Post by ig1 » Wed, Apr 07, 2010, 6:46 PM UTC

Look at jobs adverts for the type of job you want and see what they ask for cert wise, etc.

Re: Ask HN: How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ?

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Post by keefe » Wed, Apr 07, 2010, 6:59 PM UTC

How about - PhD, focus on security?

Re: Ask HN: How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ?

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Post by rmc » Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 1:55 PM UTC

Depends what you want.

If by 'hacker' you mean security, then there are certs for that. Or start hanging around, reading and practicing security stuff.

If by 'hacker' you mean a good programmer (that's probably what the hacker in hackernews means), then you don't need a certificate for that. Just do lots of programming.