full-disclosure - Re: Fred B. Schneider testimony on Cybersecurity Credentials

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=kUsC7FKohKExGdAUq0fAy=+qH=paZCefMf66M@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 14:44:29 -0800
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer@...il.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Fred B. Schneider testimony on Cybersecurity
	Credentials

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer@...il.com> wrote:
> Testimony of Fred B. Schneider
> Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science
> Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
> ...
> A Cybersecurity  Credential.
> ... a credential must  bestow obligations and
> responsibilities on practitioners. Moreover, curriculum and
> educational programs—not an exam—are central to the enterprise.

fitting that a professor propose a process without any aspect of real
world experience or demonstrated capability* in such a credentialed
organization for "cyber security". i'm all for deprecation of
pointless exams, however...

* and saying "industry experience vetted in the curriculum" doesn't count ;)

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