CISSP: The Road To Certification – Part I
I decided I needed to professionally further myself and I grabbed a copy of All in One CISSP by Shon Harris. After going through one of the twelve sections of the CISSP exam, I am convinced that CISSP is harder than I thought. However, I think it will be a road well worth it.
I thought it would be easy. After all, I have been going to security conferences and interacting with network security protocols and cryptography for the past three years. While I am pretty young in the security community, I figured if I could whip out an implementation of AES in a few minutes, I would be okay for this certification.
Then the book came in the mail, in a large box. The study guide for the test is approximately 1200 pages. At this moment I was struck with humility. While I may know a bit, I also have a lot to learn.
In the coming weeks, I will try to reflect on what I learn. Sometimes, I will not be able to reflect in full, as I work under NDA for my employeer and our customers.