{"id":39,"date":"2007-11-19T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T19:58:42","slug":"cept-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/cept-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPT Certified!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iacertification.org\/cept_certified_expert_penetration_tester.html\">Certified Expert Penetration Tester (CEPT)<\/a> with a good score on the practical.  There were two parts to the certification : an objective multiple choice written test and a practical.   To qualify one needs 70% on the written and 70% on the practical portion of the test. <br \/>The written test was not too challenging if you follow the material taught at the InfoSec Institute&#8217;s Advanced Ethical Hacking course, however, the practical made up on the lack of challenge.  The practical involved writing an unpublished stack overflow exploit for a real-world commercial software of IACRB&#8217;s choosing, a format string exploit for a custom application and writing a patch for windows binary to subvert registration mechanism on  the binary.  One could write the exploit in the form of a python script (that I chose), a shell script , a perl script or a binary written in a language of our choosing.  The solution could be quite flexible when it came to the choice of language for writing the exploits.<br \/>Personally speaking, this was a great learning experience for me and I plan to continue learning in the interesting field of vulnerability development!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got the Certified Expert Penetration Tester (CEPT) with a good score on the practical. There were two parts to the certification : an objective multiple choice written test and a practical. To qualify one needs 70% on the written and 70% on the practical portion of the test. The written test was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[309,302],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appsec","tag-cept","tag-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rajatswarup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}