In your experience, what sort of challenges could your team members face in pursuing an ISC2 certification? How can the org help them overcome these challenges successfully?

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Senior VP & CISO2 years ago

Time commitment to study

Chief Information Security Officer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

COST is the biggest challenge

Global Chief Cybersecurity Strategist & CISO in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

If you are following the discussions on LinkedIn ISC2 certs less than the higher level ones are - are just common based knowledge. Just because you have a CISSP as an example doesn't mean that you can actually protect the enterprise. Lots and lots of certs but fewer and fewer performance based testing.

Associate Vice President, Information Technology & CISO in Education2 years ago

Specifically for the CISSP, the biggest challenge is a gap between experience required vs. the experience of many folks looking to certify. Many jobs require a CISSP, but fail to recognize that many folks don't have the years of experience in the specific domains.

Senior Information Security Manager in Software2 years ago

There are a number of ISC2 certifications, so not clear which one you are asking about.

With that, having been a CISSP for decades and teaching CISSP prep courses, the biggest challenge is for non-native speakers. The test is daunting and many fumble on non-fully understanding the questions. If you don’t understand the question, you get the answer wrong.

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