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A CISSP is only a good indicator that someone wants a free ride past HR. As a technical certification, or a measure of technical ability, it is worthless.
by phaus 10y ago
A CISSP is only a good indicator that someone wants a free ride past HR. As a technical certification, or a measure of technical ability, it is worthless.
- toss1941 10y agoI wouldn't say worthless, a lot of CISSP's are in management where actual technical ability gets delegated to non-CISSP's. I'm pretty confident that most CISSPs could pick up almost any security-related technical skill if they were motivated to do so.
- phaus 10y agoThe context of this thread is that we're talking about technical positions. If you see my other comment, I already mentioned that it's a management cert. Also, if a person with a CISSP is capable of picking up technical skills, that's simply coincidental. The CISSP didn't teach them to learn technical skills, it's completely unrelated. In my experience, motivation is the largest factor in learning anything, so of course a person motivated to spend time learning a specific subject is capable of picking it up.
- fencepost 10y ago> A CISSP is only a good indicator that someone wants a free ride past HR. If you consider HR as a first firewall to get past, that may make CISSP certification not such a terrible option. If you can get past the outermost protection layers, you can start poking at the inner layers that may be more soft and squishy.