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Part I: Certification Basics

Your company or organization should have a security policy that’s readily

available to its employees. Get a copy and review its contents. Are critical ele-

ments missing? Do any supporting guidelines, standards, and procedures

exist? If your company doesn’t have a security policy, perhaps now is a good

time for you to educate management about issues of due care, due diligence,

and other concepts from the Legal, Regulations, Investigations, and

Compliance security domain.

Review your company’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans.

They don’t exist? Perhaps you can lead this initiative to help both you and

your company.

Attending an (ISC)

CISSP CBK

Review Seminar

The (ISC)

also administers five-day CISSP CBK Review Seminars to help the

CISSP candidate prepare. You can find schedules and registration forms for

the CBK Review Seminar on the (ISC)

Web site at www.isc2.org.

The early rate for the CISSP CBK Review seminar in the U.S. is $2,495 if you

If you generally learn better in a classroom environment or find that you have

knowledge or actual experience in only two or three of the domains, you

might seriously consider attending a review seminar.

Attending other training courses

or study groups

Other reputable organizations, such as SANS (www.sans.org), offer high-

quality training in both classroom and self-study formats. Before signing up

and spending your money, we suggest that you talk to someone who has

completed the course and can tell you about its quality. Usually, the quality

of a classroom course depends on the instructor; for this reason, try to find

out from others whether the proposed instructor is as helpful as he or she is

reported to be.

Many cities have self-study groups, usually run by CISSP volunteers. You may

find a study group where you live; or, if you know some CISSPs in your area,

you might ask them to help you organize a self-study group.

Always confirm the quality of a study course or training seminar before com-

mitting your money and time.

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