Certifications (and specifically paying to get certified) are about legally throwing liability on another party, because nobody wants to end up with the hot ball in their hands.
The assumption is that shit will or already has hit the fan, and the question is how to reduce your own liabilities as much as possible by throwing what you can on someone else.
Certifications were and are never about practical or literal security.
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it. But one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way with his fellows, so that no-one can really blame him
The assumption is that shit will or already has hit the fan, and the question is how to reduce your own liabilities as much as possible by throwing what you can on someone else.
Certifications were and are never about practical or literal security.