It’s been one of those weeks. You all know them, too much to do, not enough time. What compounded the week was it kicked off at 42°C which left me with one hell of a headache.

So Alex and Mike have posted a couple of blog entries on certifications. Starting with Alex on ISACA’s CRISC (posts 1 and 2) – he’s pretty clear on why he believes it’s a bad idea, slightly different to what my thoughts were the other day but definitely valid, I won’t do them justice summarising so just visit the posts.

Mike (now over at Securosis – ‘grats) expands on Alex’s posts and looks at info sec certifications in general starting with what would motivate people to acquire a certification, then slowly stripping away those motivations.

I also wanted to highlight another well rounded post from some other local boys. Whilst there have been lots of things posted about the secure way to social network, particularly in this highly connected Twitterised, Facebook life we live, I found this post on how you should look at your behaviour and practices on Facebook nice and succinct. Good work guys, we need more Perth people blogging on information security.