Yet another certification has hit the news. McAfee has announced that they will be offering an ethical hacker certification.
From Network World:
A division of McAfee is teaching IT professionals how to think like hackers and attack their own networks in a new course that lets network managers earn a popular certification for ethical hacking.
McAfee’s Foundstone Professional Services is responding to a market need by offering the Certified Ethical Hacking course, says Bill Hau, the head of Foundstone, noting that clients have been asking McAfee to provide this certification.
The course is intensive, lasting five days from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with an exam on the sixth day. IT pros learn the basics on how to hack into a system in a hands-on lab environment.
“If you want to know how to protect networks, you have to be able to think like a hacker, think outside the box. What do hackers think about when they try to break into a system,†Hau says.
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