Just a reminder that attending conferences, security group meetings, and similar activities can count toward continuing education credits for maintaining certifications.
I picked up CEH last April, and thanks in a large part to attending DEFCON twice and BSidesLV once, I’ve already got 89 credits toward the 120 required for maintaining my certification..
Over the winter, I intend to take on OSCP. What certs to you folks have?
Here are the activities that qualify as continuing education credits for CEH:
- Volunteering – 1 credit for each hour you will spend
- Association/Organization Chapter Meeting (per Meeting) – 1 credit per hour
- Author Article/Book Chapter/White Paper – You can contribute to authoring an IT security related book, chapter or paper and earn 20 ECE credits. Note that, if you write the whole book, you will earn 100 ECE credits.
- Education Course – You can earn one ECE credit per hour for any IT security related course you will attend.
- Seminar/Conference/Event – You will earn one ECE credit for every hour of a seminar, conference or similar event you will attend.
- Higher Education – If you are continuing to higher education in IT security (e.g. Masters or PhD) you can earn 15 credits per semester hour
- Identify New Vulnerability – If you identify an IT security related vulnerability, you can earn up to 10 ECE credits
- Presentation – You can share your IT security knowledge with your colleagues, in a chapter meeting or in a conference. You will earn three ECE credits per every hour you will present.
- Reading an Information Security Resource – You can earn up to five credits by reading an IT security related book, article, review or case study.
- Teach New – You can prepare a course or organize a workshop and teach people about IT security. You will earn 21 credits per day for teaching IT security. This is generally an eight hours per day course.