Any certification that includes Certificates (no not the piece of paper the technical kind)?
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Hi,
I have about 23 years in the field now as a Windows guy. Unfortunately, at every turn I am being asked to perform tasks using certificates. I know nothing about certs.
This kind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRMBZhdFjDI
I can watch these videos but they are not sticking. Even if I start to pick up a freckle of what they are, I find myself discouraged when I am tasked to perform varying tasks with them.
Any certs out there that covers these? Sure I can watch videos, etc but I feel that I do have some learning and comprehension disabilities along with ADHD.
I figure if I might as will just add another certificate to my belt (the other type lol) to the alphabet soup that keeps me working if I am going to learn more.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
I have about 23 years in the field now as a Windows guy. Unfortunately, at every turn I am being asked to perform tasks using certificates. I know nothing about certs.
This kind:
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LRMBZhdFjDI/0.jpg)
I can watch these videos but they are not sticking. Even if I start to pick up a freckle of what they are, I find myself discouraged when I am tasked to perform varying tasks with them.
Any certs out there that covers these? Sure I can watch videos, etc but I feel that I do have some learning and comprehension disabilities along with ADHD.
I figure if I might as will just add another certificate to my belt (the other type lol) to the alphabet soup that keeps me working if I am going to learn more.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Old, burnt out with this field and want it easy just like I did 22 years ago when I started IT. Some things never change. They used to call me a paper MCSE but now they can't stop calling me. What can I say, IT has gotten me through the horrors of life. It has been almost as loyal as man's best friend.
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gettinold Member Posts: 27 ■■■□□□□□□□
Nothing? Guess I have to learn this stuff on the job?Old, burnt out with this field and want it easy just like I did 22 years ago when I started IT. Some things never change. They used to call me a paper MCSE but now they can't stop calling me. What can I say, IT has gotten me through the horrors of life. It has been almost as loyal as man's best friend. -
JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,099 Admin
I think the statement "perform tasks using certificates" has me thinking of digital certificates rather than human training certifications.
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gettinold Member Posts: 27 ■■■□□□□□□□
That is exactly it.Old, burnt out with this field and want it easy just like I did 22 years ago when I started IT. Some things never change. They used to call me a paper MCSE but now they can't stop calling me. What can I say, IT has gotten me through the horrors of life. It has been almost as loyal as man's best friend. -
JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,099 Admin
I suggest that you find out from your IT department who your approved digital certificate provider(s) is and read their documentation for how to request and use their digital certs.
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UnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
I dont know if there is a certification that address this, but the question is why? Why do you want to learn and practice this through a certification?Why not setup a lab and go through the guides/Google/Documentation and practice it on your own? seems a lot quicker this way -
E Double U Member Posts: 2,239 ■■■■■■■■■■
UnixGuy said:Why do you want to learn and practice this through a certification?Alphabet soup from (ISC)2, ISACA, GIAC, EC-Council, Microsoft, ITIL, Cisco, Scrum, CompTIA, AWS -
FluffyBunny Member Posts: 245 ■■■■■■□□□□
gettinold said:
Unfortunately, at every turn I am being asked to perform tasks using certificates. I know nothing about certs.PKI and certificates are my favorite hobby! I even run two in-house classes for our engineers and colleagues: one about the fundamentals of crypto and certs (why, what, how, when) and the other more technically in-depth about how our engineers are supposed to automated the process of managing these certificates in their CI/CD pipelines.
From time to time I teach that intro class to people on the CertStation and /r/comptia Discord servers. If you like we can set something up, so I can run you through the basics
https://discord.gg/dfZmfCH7
https://discord.gg/zETr7YUJ
As to official trainings etc. you will not find exactly what you're looking for.
* Security+ covers the fundamentals I also cover, but probably a bit less.
* CISSP covers the fundamentals I also cover in my class.
* Mark Cooper "the PKI guy!" has great in-depth trainings on running a PKI
* Venafi said they had a nice article explaining how to learn this, but they don't.
* There's other vendors who offer generic PKI trainings, or product-focused trainings (Thales, other HSMs and so)
There's nothing that really explains to a devops engineer: this is what crypto is, this is what certs are, this is what you have to do with them... Which is why I made those in-house trainings.
Otherwise, the best way is as you said: on the job, making it work by reading documentation. -
UnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
@FluffyBunny sounds like an awesome class! There is definitely a gap in this area