| SYNOPSIS
(ISC)2®, the International Information System Security
Certification Consortium, Inc., introduced the SSCP®
(Systems Security Certified Practitioner) certification
in March 2001. This intermediate-level certification
is meant for IT security practitioners with a minimum
of one year of PROFESSIONAL experience in the field
of information security. This experience requirement
essentially forms the prerequisite for this vendor-neutral
certification. In June 2003, (ISC)2® introduced
an Associate program that allows candidates to take
the exam before they meet the experience requirement.
Here’s what (ISC)2® says about this: After
passing the selected exam and signing (ISC)2's®
Code of Ethics, the Associate must garner the requisite
work experience and successfully complete a professional
endorsement process before he/she becomes officially
certified as CISSP® or SSCP®. The SSCP®
is not required for (ISC)2’s CISSP® certification,
but is a logical step on the way towards this premier
certification, as well as to other vendor-specific and
vendor-neutral security certifications.
The term ‘CPE’ is an acronym for Continued
Professional Education credits. After a candidate becomes
certified, he/she is required to perform continuing
education per three-year certification period to become
recertified… An SSCP® must submit 60 CPEs
during the 3-year re-certification period. Of the 60
CPEs that are required, at least 40 must be ‘A’
credits (directly related to the 7 major domains of
the SSCP® CBK) and as many as 20 can be ‘B’
credits (not related to the 7 domains of the SSCP®
CBK®).”
This certification is well suited to IT professionals
who want to call themselves IS (Information Security)
professionals, network security practitioners or systems
security practitioners. The SSCP® designation is
achieved by passing one exam.
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