{"id":40013,"date":"2016-11-24T01:55:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodolfopadro.wordpress.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-11-24T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T08:41:31","slug":"certifications-in-computing-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/certifications-in-computing-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Certifications in Computing Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><em> --Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/rodolfopadro.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/24\/certifications-in-computing-security\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rodolfopadro.wordpress.com\">Mr. Robot&amp;#039;s Imaginary Friend<\/a><\/a><\/em><br \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Credentialing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> is the process of establishing the qualifications of licensed professionals, organizational members or organizations, and assessing their background and legitimacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In the Computer security or Information security fields, there are a number of tracks a professional can take to demonstrate qualifications. Four sources categorizing these, and many other credentials, licenses and certifications, are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Schools and Universities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">&#8220;Vendor&#8221; sponsored credentials (e.g. Microsoft, Cisco)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Association and Organization sponsored credentials<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Governmental (or quasi governmental) body sponsored licenses, certifications and credentials.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Quality and acceptance vary worldwide for IT security credentials, from well-known and high quality examples like a master&#8217;s degree in the field from an accredited school, CISSP, and Microsoft certification, to a controversial list of many dozens of lesser known credentials and organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In addition to certification obtained by taking courses and\/or passing exams (and in the case of CCSP , demonstrating experience and\/or being recommended or given a reference from an existing credential holder), award certificates also are given for winning government, university or industry sponsored competitions, including team competitions and contests.<\/span><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/rodolfopadro.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/isc2-ccsp.png?w=700\" alt=\"isc2-ccsp\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/74ebb0a396968cd90ce3e008baa6ec39.jpg 700w, https:\/\/rodolfopadro.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/isc2-ccsp.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/rodolfopadro.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/isc2-ccsp.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/rodolfopadro.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/isc2-ccsp.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/rodolfopadro.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/isc2-ccsp.png 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\"   \/><\/p><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/rodolfopadro.wordpress.com\/48\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fecff529cbd7574c581062f54826fb1b.jpg\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/a233b61ade1721be658c0b9bf964b3cd.jpg#038;blog=115348198&%23038;post=48&%23038;subd=rodolfopadro&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Originally published at Mr. Robot&amp;#039;s Imaginary Friend Credentialing is the process of establishing the qualifications of licensed professionals, organizational members or organizations, and assessing their background and legitimacy. In the Computer security or Information security fields, there are a number of tracks a professional can take to demonstrate qualifications. Four sources categorizing these, and many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/certifications-in-computing-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Certifications in Computing Security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":40014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-40013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-syndicated","tag-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40019,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40013\/revisions\/40019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}