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CISSP

  • 14-07-2008 12:40PM
    #1
    thebaldsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Anyone got any advice about this one? Got interested in security over the last few years from reviewing peoples' code with a view to breaking it, I heard this was a good one to learn about the more abstract side of security and get away from specific languages/vendors etc.

    Can anyone recommend a good book to at least get an overview of what's covered in this?

    Also, one minor detail, I'll be starting a fine art degree this Autumn, supposedly part time but the workload is meant to be absolutely insane... What's the workload like for this one?

    Thanks a mil!


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  • #2
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    It is a well regarded general infosec course/cert. It will teach you the when's and why's rather than the how's. BUT there are experience pre-requisites and you need to be sponsored by an existing CISSP for full certification (just fulfilling the pre-requisites and passing the exam will only get you associate status). I was going to go for it last year before they added that last but. TBH I think it will become a bit too much of a good old boys club now and is going to lose it's value overtime. Certifications should always be based on what you know, not who.
    Anyway there's a good forum for this on www.techexams.net, one of the CISSP board advisors posts there regularly.


  • #3
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    thebaldsoprano wrote: »
    Hi

    Anyone got any advice about this one? Got interested in security over the last few years from reviewing peoples' code with a view to breaking it, I heard this was a good one to learn about the more abstract side of security and get away from specific languages/vendors etc.

    Can anyone recommend a good book to at least get an overview of what's covered in this?

    Also, one minor detail, I'll be starting a fine art degree this Autumn, supposedly part time but the workload is meant to be absolutely insane... What's the workload like for this one?

    Thanks a mil!

    this should be all you need, it's not very a very techncal exam but there is a fair bit in it but's mostly theory..

    I've seen people start studying a week before and pass and others take over a year

    do it at your own pace..


  • #4
    thebaldsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭thebaldsoprano


    Great, thanks a mil for the advice


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