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As someone who used to be CISSP certified (way back in 2003), here's my advice: don't bother. The only reason I got it in the first place was because, honestly,
by rlander 14y ago
As someone who used to be CISSP certified (way back in 2003), here's my advice: don't bother. The only reason I got it in the first place was because, honestly, I had more free time than actual experience. Otherwise it's a great way to bullshit your way into a job you're unqualified for in a shitty company.
Focus your efforts on actual learning, instead of proving through a worthless piece of paper.
edit: Just to drive the point home: 9 years later I still don't know shit about security.
- rdl 14y agoIf you're going to waste your time on a stupid cert, waste it on a vendor cert around your main technology. I'd trust a RHSE to know redhat security for redhat deployments more than I'd trust a CISSP, mainly because I put close to negative value on the CISSP, and a lot of infrastructure security is actually following best practices, not anything too specific to security. For networking, Cisco (assuming a Cisco shop). For virtualization, I've heard the VMware stuff is good if you're enterprise doing VMware. I wonder if there's value in the Amazon AWS courses for AWS deployments; I'd almost take one just to see what they're like.