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Time
5 hours 58 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
6
Video Transcription
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>> Welcome back to Cybrary,
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it's of course, I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes.
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Let's talk about CISSP Concentrations.
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This video is probably little shorter than others,
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is going to cover specifically
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CISSP concentrations, what they are?
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Where they are? And a little bit about them.
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Then we're going to talk specifically
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about why you would want
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to pursue the ISSEP concentration.
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There are three CISSP,
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Certified Information Systems
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Security Professional concentrations
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and they're listed here.
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You have the ISSAP,
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which is the audit one.
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You have the ISSMP,
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which is management, and then you'd have
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the ISSEP, which is engineering.
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Each one of those has a little bit different flavor.
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When IEC2 created the concentrations,
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they were looking at
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all the different professional certifications
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out there and there's a lot related to these fields.
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They said, "man there isn't
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any that aren't necessarily specifically
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focused on information security, on cybersecurity."
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A great example of that is ISSMP,
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the Information System Security
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Management Professional concentration,
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is a kin to the
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Project Management Professional that you would
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get from the Project Management Institute, PMI.
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Well, I am a PMP.
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I hold that certificate.
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It's a great learning experience to get that one.
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However column, it is
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definitely focused on general project management,
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not information system security and
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so ISSMP provides that focus there.
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ISSMP has direct competitor.
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It's the ISACA CISA,
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Certified Information Security Auditor certificate,
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so that one's got a peer
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if you will. That works really well.
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On ISSEP side of the house,
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the engineering side of the house, there is, of course,
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in cozy set of
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professional certifications on systems engineering,
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but those are general top-level
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systems engineering and they don't get into
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the meat and potatoes of
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information system security engineering
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thus we have ISSEP.
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Each one of these concentrations,
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and I know folks that hold all three of them are
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great demonstrations of subject matter expertise
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in an area of whether it's audit,
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management, engineering
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focused on information system security.
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Why the heck would you get the ISSEP concentration?
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Well, many people get it for advancement.
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They want to move along
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in their jobs and this shows that they have
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the requisite knowledge to be
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a more senior person in
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an organization, which is awesome.
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In this case here,
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I took ISSEP myself to get some specialized skills.
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I really wanted to delve back
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into the systems engineering side
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of the house and it's something that
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I have wave top dabbled in and out of throughout
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my career and I really thought it was time
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to show that I do have some knowledge in that area.
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Show that subject matter expertise knowledge.
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A lot of times you find yourself ISSEP supporting
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government systems and as
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I stated ISS started
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out really in the US federal government,
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but they have since expanded
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because of the complexity of systems today.
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Then of course you have supportive industry system.
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There's a lot of organizations now out there in industry
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that have a growing need
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for systems engineering support that is
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specifically focused on
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the information security and cybersecurity spaces.
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Because frankly, we build incredibly complex systems.
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Your smartphone, for example,
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is a systems engineering marvel
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and we'll do several examples throughout the course of
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those types of things where you might not think of
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your smartphone is having to
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go through a systems engineering process,
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but it absolutely did because
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your smartphone is made
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up of multiple pieces and parts and
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multiple things that make it
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work and it didn't just come together by magic.
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It wasn't just software developers writing something.
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It was systems engineers
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driving the train to put those things together.
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That's where ISS come in
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on the information security side of the house.
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In this lesson, we covered
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a CISSP concentrations what they are,
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where they came from, what we talked about,
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why you should consider pursuing
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the ISSP concentration. Will see you next time.
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