http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/02/professional-ethics.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/02/professional-ethics.html/comment-page-1#comment-3241 wrc Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:08:23 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=2223#comment-3241 The security industry lacks self-regulation and any barrier to entry, two hallmarks of a big-P Profession. Discussing "professional ethics" in this space doesn't go very far because there isn't even a common ethical grounding across the certificate mills. I've never ever heard of anyone losing their certificate for an ethical breach. I *have* had a representative of a popular certificate mill tell me that plagiarism was not an actionable breach of their ethical code. Actually, I take that back. I have heard of ethics actions against people who cut into the various certificate mills’ revenue streams by copying their “boot camp??? materials. The security industry lacks self-regulation and any barrier to entry, two hallmarks of a big-P Profession. Discussing “professional ethics” in this space doesn’t go very far because there isn’t even a common ethical grounding across the certificate mills.
I’ve never ever heard of anyone losing their certificate for an ethical breach. I *have* had a representative of a popular certificate mill tell me that plagiarism was not an actionable breach of their ethical code.
Actually, I take that back. I have heard of ethics actions against people who cut into the various certificate mills’ revenue streams by copying their “boot camp??? materials.

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