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Thanks for sharing. Just out of curiosity, are you in a position to hire somebody -- or are you just suggesting that you would be a willing teammate for somebo

• insertcredit 8y ago
  I'm not currently in a position to hire people, but having served in that role in the past, I would given the opportunity not hesitate to follow through with what I said (practical concerns aside such as figuring out if someone went through the challenges on his own). So my comment was mostly trying to illustrate that the skills one learns by going through these kind of challenges are extremely useful in practice and the skills one learns by doing an Msc of the sort advertised here pretty much completely useless, assuming one wants to do reverse engineering and vulnerability research and not just push paper, point at his Master's and call himself a "security expert".
• eganist 8y ago
  I am, and I disagree with a lot of what the OP put forward. Security academics, self-taught pentesters, and people who simply gained hard security experience in their day to day jobs each bring something unique to the table. I'm far more likely to pick up the principal engineer with a security MS for a security architect role than I am someone who can prove to me they passed an OSCE. That said, for the person who can prove to me they passed an OSCE, I'll knock two years off the pentest experience requirement for any such role.