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

3 points by mshenoy4573 ↗ HN

   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

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ig1
Look at jobs adverts for the type of job you want and see what they ask for cert wise, etc.
keefe
How about - PhD, focus on security?
rmc
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.