Firms sending their techies to Hacker's Camp

Technology
A Week at Hacker Camp
Chana R Schoenberger, 09.15.03

Half of all corporate and government computer networks have been hacked. The scary part: Another 15% have no idea whether they have ever been violated, says a survey by the FBI and the Computer Security Institute. Employers are so fed up with being vandalized, probed and pillaged that they are sending more in-house techies to hacking camp to learn how to find the network holes before the bad guys do. In June FORBES signed up for a course run by a Fort Lauderdale, Fla. outfit called Intense School (note the intensity of dropping the "The"), founded in 1997 by brothers David and Barry Kaufman, who were IT consultants, and their cousin Ron Rubens. In its first six months the course has trained 750 students, each paying $3,400 for 12 hours a day of theory and practice. They emerge five days later from the Springfield, Va. Comfort Inn, just off an I-95 on-ramp in the Washington suburbs, with three new résumé letters: "C.E.H.," or Certified Ethical Hacker....>>

http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2003/0915/119.html

don't spend the money having their software analyzed. CERT (www.cert.org) has a program where they will analyze your software for security issues. I don't recall the price, but we are submitting our software to a review by their students using the same program.

Cost, free...

Later,
JM

Damn....I've got some great hacker/cracker friends that would show anybody all they know for 1/10 that.

Being a MCSE I also get these "deals" in the mail:
"Learn how to impliment Windows 2003 Server" for only $795.00 (One day seminar)...Thanks pal...What a deal!

Is it me or do these things always sound like a f*ucking rip-off ??