My statement about SSCP vs. CISSP was primarily based on work I did for
a local university's professional development center early in 2004. I
sampled job boards over a six week timeframe looking for mentions of
SSCP and CISSP in descriptions for jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area,
and found many for CISSP but very few for SSCP. I single sample this
morning, not limited to any particular locale, produced the following:
CISSP: 630 (Monster), 293 (HotJobs), 446 (Dice)
SSCP: 14 (Monster), 8 (HotJobs), 20 (Dice)
There is still a pretty wide gap.
Still, Bill makes some good points (below) and I'm glad to hear that the
SSCP has more value than I had previously thought. As Bill pointed out,
CISSP has been around for much longer, and I think ISC2 does more
marketing of CISSP than of SSCP. Bill also noted the higher value of
SSCP among the auditing community vs. CISSP among the security
community, which is something I hadn't considered. That makes a lot of
sense, because for auditing, CISA would likely be preferred over CISSP
and holding an SSCP cert would demonstrate some technical know-how.
On the other hand, the SSCP has been around a couple of years vs. forever
for the CISSP, so unfamiliarity of what to ask about may be more relevant
than a relative perceived value. I've never had anyone ask me if I had a
CISSP either, so I'm not clear how meaningful that aside is. And, I've found
a number of IT system and process auditing types much more familiar
with--and more highly-regarding of--the SSCP than with the more broadly
based (and, thereby, more "generic") CISSP. So, it just goes to show that
everything's relative, depending on which side of the fence you're surveying
the landscape from.
--
- Brian Smithson (CISSP; SSCP; and CISA, as soon as I finish the paperwork :-)
brian@grot.com
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