The notion of a national certification plan is being laughed at by anyone who is in the industry for the right reasons. Those involved in the classic commoditised scan-and-bang assessments will love it as it'll continue to keep the cash flow churning.
Some have even suggestion "cyber conscription" to force people to do government work if they're capable. This, and the recent articles indicating that the government wants people to "volunteer" their time goes to show that they want people for the lowest possible price.
The problem in Australia here is no different to overseas: the focus is on useless certifications and compliance, cheap resources, and security theatre. CEH and CISSP are alive and kicking because of this.
All of the above is beside the point. Troy made CEH PluralSight content because PluralSight's people wanted it. It's really that simple. The blog post is just marketing for that content.
> The notion of a national certification plan is being laughed at by anyone who is in the industry for the right reasons
Yes but the majority of enterprises are not in the industry. These stupid certifications are being pushed by our largest accounting firms (where Arno Brok is connected), and these are influential to business leaders.
> Troy made CEH PluralSight content because PluralSight's people wanted it
I hadn't considered that. Good point.
>the focus is on useless certifications and compliance
It's hard to explain to people in "real" security just how hopeless the current "compliance security" situation really is. Consider this situation. A user goes on holidays for two weeks. Before leaving, they turn off their laptop and lock it in a cupboard.
I've just described a critical incident. I can expect to be writing up incident reports, and reporting to management on "root cause" and how we can avoid this incident recurring. Can anyone in "real security" even see the problem?
Why, after two weeks, their desktop antivirus is out of date.
Agreed. The cross pollination required to get security into organisations correctly isn't there. Orgs see security as a pain in the ass, and not an investment/insurance policy.
While the tech scene in Australia may be behind the times in a few ways (possibly security as well), Troy's view here is in no way affected by living here. This material was created because PluralSight wanted CEH-related material, as their viewers (world-wide) were asking for it. Full stop.
Blog posts like that are designed to steer traffic towards course views and "time watching the content", without which PluralSight authors don't get paid.
Thanks rcconf. Yeah I did feel like a bit of a muppet for missing it. I'm going to say "It was late and I was tired" and try to hide behind that as an excuse ;) I'm pretty sure I would have found it eventually, but I was time-poor and thought it'd be a good idea to call in the cavalry. Stephen was great, plus he knows the RDI code inside out for obvious reasons. I still feel like I contributed though!
This seems like a rather unjustified and wanton punishment to me. I can't see anything in his history that is worthy of such treatment. I scan around other areas of HN and see people who are blatant trolls appearing everywhere and they aren't hallbanned. Yet someone, like josephcooney, who appears to have a brain and attempts to be actively involved in moderate and reasonable discussion is axed?
Just goes to show that HN is becoming a ghetto, that's if it isn't already one.
My first account was hellbanned after my first comment (I was stupid enough to make a joke). I had no idea for weeks, and hellbanning also makes the site incredibly slow.
I only realised after I logged out and the site was fast. It's absolutely absurd to hellban someone after 1 comment (and it wasn't racist, aggressive, etc). What's wrong with warnings, or at least telling me I was banned?
I think you misunderstood what I meant; I meant that MongoDB is as good as it gets for our requirements, not availability-wise. I agree if availability is your only concern, there are far better solutions.
That is definitely part of it. When I first started writing I needed to remind myself of this quite a lot. Thankfully I haven't really needed to do that for quite a while now. I enjoy writing and I do it when I can. The goal continues to be learning with the added bonus of helping others along the way. It hasn't ever been, nor will be, about traffic.
I agree with your points. It is hard to make something this small have meaning across the board. This is part of the reason why I targeted the thought at tech blogging in particular. This net may also be too wide, but in my opinion the point holds when it comes to that type of writing.
At no point did I say "hide your writing". I think it's clear that the sentiment of the post was not to hide the stuff that you write, but instead to write for the right reasons. If you write for the purpose of pleasing others you'll struggle. If you write to please yourself you'll be surprised just how many others you please in the process.
Thanks for the comment. You're correct, I didn't write this for myself. I decided to post it after a conversation with a few people on Twitter earlier today. I wanted to post something short which summed up how I felt about things.
While this wasn't written for me it is the summation of how I approach the way I write. My goal is for me to learn or to share the things that I think I've learned. This approach has worked well for me. While writing I learn a lot, and I do mean a LOT. When I finish, I like to publish because there's a whole world of people out there who are waiting to tell me I'm wrong. Even when you get things wrong you have the chance to learn. The key here is that the focus is on me.
If I can help other people at the same time then that's just a great side-effect. Thankfully so far I think I've managed it on more than one occasion I do hope I do it again. But if I don't it isn't going to worry me, as I will have got something from the experience.
Thanks again, I'm glad you enjoyed the read. Have an awesome day!
Some have even suggestion "cyber conscription" to force people to do government work if they're capable. This, and the recent articles indicating that the government wants people to "volunteer" their time goes to show that they want people for the lowest possible price.
The problem in Australia here is no different to overseas: the focus is on useless certifications and compliance, cheap resources, and security theatre. CEH and CISSP are alive and kicking because of this.
All of the above is beside the point. Troy made CEH PluralSight content because PluralSight's people wanted it. It's really that simple. The blog post is just marketing for that content.