Red Hat Pushes For CC Certification By Year's End

Ridgelift writes "This article indicates Red Hat Linux is about to receive certification under the Common Criteria (CC) Scheme worldwide. This has been a long road for Red Hat, and 'once successfully certified in the UK, Red Hat products will be recognised as certified and approved by information security agencies from all 19 countries participating in the Common Criteria program.' This means Red Hat will sit alongside Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM's AIX."

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About certs

[segment]

I know I ramble on about a lot of things here so here is another rant. Is it me or are certs like so blown out of proportion it's not even funny? Don't get me wrong, I think they have their place somewhere, but as for counting on someone certified to actually have a clue is an altogether different case.

For those on mailing lists (I'm on isp-lists*, sec*focus*, nanog, sunmanagers, etc), how many times do you see someone with a sig with all their grewvy certs asking dumb assed questions that any good sysadmin/secadmin/network admin could answer? Come on I know I'm not the only one. I've seen plenty of people in the industry with certs galore who didn't know squat, I've read about CCIE's who didn't even know the command line syntax to null route.

Maybe I should pick up the books and just take my certs for the hell of it, but I see no need to. I make money, and haven't had problems with anything. If I need something done and I don't know, then I'm learning it for my own sake immediately. I've never felt the need to get a cert, so am I rambling on... Or... Are certs like soooooo yesterday?

Re:About certs

[silas_moeckel]

OK I'm a bit biased as a CCIE but your confusing certs with experience certs have become just a test to make sure your somewhat compotent. A good hiring manager takes them for what they are just a test that shows you have a minimal ammout of education.

Now the CCIE tract is more for thery and for me it was exposure to old school antiquated techs like IPX, frame relay and RIP to name a few. Many a CCIE spends there days working out thery and big broad strokes of a Network Arch not plunking away at a keyboard (we get flunkies for that, what did you thinkt he CCNA and CCNE's were for :) thats why your average shop dosent have any CCIE's on staff but calls them in when they make big changes.

Re:About certs

[bersl2]

I would say that any kind of complex certification is highly overrated. CC, MSCE, RHCE, all it means is that you learned about a system in abstract. Whoop-de-doo!

Now CPR certification, that's an important one.

Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well

[kir]

Hey... I've got a three digit UID, and while I've been around a while (4 or 5 years I think), I'm not sure it really has anything to do with how long one has been a /. weenie. Maybe it does? But I've not seen anything that says so.

Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well

[JK Master-Slave]

Hay, I've been on this site since early '99. It's just that handles need to be replaced from time to time. Every account that I've ditched has had the +1 bonus before I ditched it, btw. You get to feeling after awhile like a 'personality' or whatever, so you ditch and replace.

This particular account is less than three days old, I'll grant you. It'll have +1 privledges within a month.

Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well

[JediTrainer]

(sidewalk for the en_US folks)

I'm en_CA you insensitive clod! (and we use 'sidewalk' too)