About stanford advanced computer and security certificate

I just saw stanford offers a certificate online, which cover different topics, check the following link for more information:

Advanced Computer Security Certificate | Stanford University Online

What do you think guys, it is worth to take it?. I guess since its the department of engineering the one who issues the certificate, it would in some way guaranty the quality of the course.

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JDMurray

You bets best is to Google for reviews of the cert's courses written by people who have taken them. Having the name "Stanford University" on it might give it a little more credibility on face value, but that doesn't indicate how good the courses are.

pennywaltz

xopito wrote: »

I just saw stanford offers a certificate online, which cover different topics, check the following link for more information:

Advanced Computer Security Certificate | Stanford University Online

What do you think guys, it is worth to take it?. I guess since its the department of engineering the one who issues the certificate, it would in some way guaranty the quality of the course.

Also hop on linkedin and do a search to see who is in the program or went through it. Of course Stanford is well known, but expensive!

AlexNguyen

pennywaltz wrote: »

Of course Stanford is well known, but expensive!

If you DID visit the provided link, you'll notice that the tuition is "only" $495 per online course + 75$ one-time document fee.
6 courses are required to get the certificate.

I think it's "cheap" because each online course is aproximately 6 - 8 hours.

ChooseLife

At the first glance looks very interesting, thanks for sharing.
*tempted*...

xopito

Well I think this certificate will end up building my credibility, due to life I was forced to enter to a bad University, but through the year I have worked hard to get certificate such as Comptia Security+, MCSE and Red Hat Certificate Engineering. The course seems really nice and having a certificate from Stanford I am sure it will take me into a new level. Well thanks for the opinion guys

ChooseLife

JDMurray wrote: »

You bets best is to Google for reviews of the cert's courses written by people who have taken them. Having the name "Stanford University" on it might give it a little more credibility on face value, but that doesn't indicate how good the courses are.

I researched online and interestingly there is nil information on the certificate (apart from a couple of press releases reprinted by several dozen web sites and mentioning in CV's/LinkedIn profiles)... Well, one article called "Resume Boosters", but that is it...

colemic

My only complaint would be that they equate each course with one CEU. I feel that should be dependent on how much time the course takes me tocomplete. I think ISC(2) and ISACA would only view one CEU as one CPE.

JDMurray

colemic wrote: »

I think ISC(2) and ISACA would only view one CEU as one CPE.

1 CEU = 10 hours of classroom attendance in a continuing education program.
1 CPE = 1 hour of attendance in a continuing professional education situation (as per (ISC)2 and ISACA). Often referred to as "CPE hours."

Therefore, 1 CEU should equal 10 CPEs, but I see nothing explicitly noted about this exchange on isc2.org or isaca.org.

universalfrost

thanks for the link!

I am looking at this really hard. might be good thing to use the last of my gi bill on.

swild

JDMurray wrote: »

1 CEU = 10 hours of classroom attendance in a continuing education program.
1 CPE = 1 hour of attendance in a continuing professional education situation (as per (ISC)2 and ISACA). Often referred to as "CPE hours."

Therefore, 1 CEU should equal 10 CPEs, but I see nothing explicitly noted about this exchange on isc2.org or isaca.org.

I contacted ISC2 about this a few weeks ago. While is states on their website that you should contact the course publisher for information on number of recommended CPEs, you should use that as a guideline and report the number of hours you actually spent studying, in class and out of class, for the certification or exam. I said that I had spent 120 hours studying for the CISSP and asked if I spent the same amount of time studying for another certification if I could count that as 120 CPEs. She said that generally yes, but to use my best judgement.