New Rankings: AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo! Still Dominant
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That is the message from Internet analyst Jupiter Media Metrix, which announced Wednesday that despite changes in its measurement approach, the big three still stand astride the U.S. Top 50 Web and digital media property rankings.
In announcing a new categorization and reporting structure aimed at more accurately representing "an array of niche content delivered through dynamic platforms and technologies," Jupiter found that AOL properties were in the top 10 ranking of 37 categories and subcategories.
Jupiter said that Microsoft and MSN-branded components were in the top 10 ranking of 28 categories and subcategories, while the Yahoo! brand was in the top 10 ranking of 30 categories and subcategories.
In December, the ethics board of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium -- the not-for-profit corporation that created the certification program in 1989 -- verified Merchant's three years of pubescent work experience, and granted him the CISSP credential. A frankly flabbergasted review board member told Merchant in an email that the investigation had been prompted by the organization's desire to "maintain the stature of the certification."
"I don't have the statistics handy, but I suspect the median age of CISSPs is over 30," wrote Bill Cambell in the email. "The certification was never conceived as something within reach of teenagers!"
"Obviously he's very extraordinary, and he seems to be very sincere about his interest in information security and going somewhere in the industry," says consortium spokesman Mike Kilroy. "We really congratulate him on his achievement."
In addition to the $450 test fee, the young security pro will now be responsible for annual dues, and is bound to the earnest CISSP code of ethics -- a kind of Ten Commandments of computer security work that includes such injunctions as "protect society," "act honestly" and "advance and protect the profession."
Merchant, who plans to attend a university when he graduates high school, will also have to renew his CISSP certification in three years, and retake the exam -- which he describes as challenging but "too theoretical." "There should be more practical knowledge," says Merchant. By then, he'll be nineteen years old, and may even have a driver's license to show at the door.