A research by Foote Partners , an independent market research company comprised of former Gartner and META Group industry analysts that report the industry’s only comprehensive survey of pay for certified and noncertified IT skills, has listed EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker as the certification posting the greatest gains for seeing the highest pay increase in 2008, up 40% just behind GSEC of SANS ! It is interesting to note that CEH is up 40% despite the recent state of the global economy !