Hey,

I was just reading about the LPT (Licensed Penetration Tester) certification on the EC-Council web site at http://www.eccouncil.org/certification/licensed_penetration_tester.aspx

After quickly going through the content, I saw MANY typos and mistakes, for example, in the "Requirements" section:

Asking the LPT certificate when applying for LPT...

Shouldn't this be criteria 6 instead of 5?

In the "Benefits" section:

Add this to the fact that I found 7 typos in my CEH exam. Worst of all, I had to apply twice for CEH because they lost my first application form...

Am I the only one seeing these things?

I have noticed several of their typos and mistakes, but they seem to be getting better.  I think it probably has  to do with who made things. They have several offices across the world, I am assuming that some stuff was able to sneak through unnoticed because of it.

I have currently taken the CEH and ECSA and plan on doing their LPT program.  The reason I am doing their program is because I work for myself and the certs set me aside from other people. When dealing with upper level management they MIGHT have been given a list of what to work for, but sometimes not. So just having the Licensed Pen Tester makes them wonder, 'why are these other guys not licensed?'

In my opinion a certification is really what you make out of it.  I could honestly go get one of my friends that knows little about computers, shove them in front of some dump, and have them memorize for a day and go pass the test. That is the bad side that we all don't talk about much, but we know it happens.  I think the EC-Council program has about the right price point, and phrasing in their tests, to keep just anyone going out to get certs with out some experience.

No, you are not. Remember we are all "researchers" in a very exact branch (the slightest mixup, for example a : for and a ; would have terrible consequences, i can name atleast one ) so we are expected to be precise, which we demand from them. like stated before in the other topic i like the fact they are doing a mayor overhaul (first the website, which has improved greatly, and now the CEH course). This gives not only the members a better feeling, but attracts new members also.

Of course, and I don't want to sound like I just complain about them. But pick any page on their site and you will find many "typos"... I really, really had an hard time registering for my CEH exam before and this left me with a bad taste in the mouth. Finally, you don't get that with SANS, Offensive-Security, etc.

So hence my question, if they are serious or just there to make money.

Hi there,
about your question I would like to share my experience with EC-Council.
Some years ago I was interested to represent and sell EC Council courses in Italy. To do that, I contacted the EC-Council Head Quarter who redirected me to their European representative (at date SSR-I).

Since beginning I had many misunderstandings with this company (SSRI);  even that I started to sell their courses and indeed I sold them to some of the best training organizations here in Italy.

I started a professional campaign to sell EC-Council trainings in all Italian territory, but as troubles with SSRI did not come to an end, I contacted EC Council again asking their help to define the question. I got the same response: I could only speak with SSRI as the only European agent they would recognize.

To avoid further troubles asked also to EC-Council if I could order CEH course materials and vouchers from EC-Council international order page at 2 Checkout (http://www.eccouncil.org/orders.htm) but, via email, I still was instructed to order all materials from SSRI.

I did it but SSRI, got the money, refused to send me vouchers for long time since I discovered they had lost EC-Council mandate (but this was not reported on the EC-Council web site, instead still SSRI were reported as their only European agent).

So I went back to EC Council to ask for vouchers I had paid to their representative. Can you guess it? They refused to recognize any involvement in the question: so not only I had lost my money but my reputation was threatened by these people.

So I ask you the question: Is EC-Council a credible organization?

Andrew, just to make it clear, if you look at my posts on this forum, I am not the kind of guy who complains all the time on little details, far from it! It is just that these typos reminded me of my registration process and all errors I have found in the exam.

You didn't have to answer if you felt it was just complaining...

On the other hand, I could have been clearer...

All is good man!

Anyway, you were a bit right, I was complaining a bit... 

I will be more careful next time!