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AntiEvil
Newcomer II

When will self study options be available for CGRC?

Looking for self study options for CGRC. I see a lot of folks asking for this, but very little action on the part of ICS2 to facilitate.

Other than reading old CAP books and/or publicly available NIST documents, are there any other options?

I am not interested in any form of instructor led "live" class. I'd be open to something similar to the CCSP online course.

When, ISC2, will you provide more options for those of us who prefer to self study?
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Early_Adopter
Community Champion

Frankly ISC2 isn't great at keeping up books for Certifications that don’t seem to do great numbers.

Unfortunately, it’s a little difficult to gather information on how many folk have a given certification as ISC2 has become less transparent in the last couple of years:

https://community.isc2.org/t5/Member-Support/Members-count-page-not-updated/td-p/57017

However it is possible to look a little more deeply at the data as there are recent archives which you can extrapolate from with numbers as recently as late 2022 and perhaps make inferences as to the health of a certification(for reference HCISSP was binned and the last member count was around 1.5k). Last number I see for CAP is 4,157 globally, so I’d say it’s better off that the old CISSP concentrations as of a year or two ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221129144010/https://www.isc2.org/About/Member-Counts

It would be really good if there was a refreshed CBK, Study Guide or Textbook for every certification at least every 3-4 years, or at least a statement that things haven’t changed so the latest available is still good(there are reasons I think why this is hard).

In terms of what is available… There are flash cards, and an exam outline and a flashy marketing PDF with lots of happy looking people(probably they had big training budgets or were well off so they could afford Instructor led training…):

https://www.isc2.org/certifications/cgrc/cgrc-self-study-resources

https://www.isc2.org/-/media/Project/ISC2/Main/Media/Marketing-Assets/CGRC/CGRC-Ultimate-Guide-RB.pd...

https://www.isc2.org/certifications/references

Anyway it may be that some of these play better for the US Federal space, or similar and ISC2 judge that they just don’t need the inexpensive text book option or that this is too costly to maintain, I really hope this isn’t/wish it wasn’t the case.

AntiEvil
Newcomer II

Great reply!  Thanks for all the data points and information.  I would very much like to continue my journey with ISC2 - I have the CISSP and CCSP, but would very much like to continue on with the CGRC.  Given the lack of attention that ISC2 is giving to these lower volume certifications, I am guessing my best bet is to become a member of ISACA and sit for the CRISC as that certification has plenty of self-study materials available on LinkedIn Learning and Amazon to name a couple.

 

Thanks again for your insights and reply.

Kaity
Community Manager

Hi all!

 

Our team is hard at work on new CGRC materials and we will have new options available this year 🙂 

Early_Adopter
Community Champion

That’s great news to hear Kaity - is there a study guide/CBK release roadmap being worked on anywhere? TQ
AntiEvil
Newcomer II

Thank you, Kaity.  This changes things for me.  I guess I will wait for this to happen.  I am super excited to hear this news.

Kaity
Community Manager

We're looking forward to sharing specific details when they're set 🙂 

sharmagds
Newcomer I

HI,

 

I too wish to prepare on my own and then write CGRC exams, I think that is not possible currently.  If not when will that option be available?  Also, I will need study material, such as review manual, questions answer practice sessions.  Appreciate if you can share related links, thank you.

coolrunner38
Viewer

Just looking for a current group or someone in ISC2 Community who has taken the CGRC.  I have the flash cards and the CGRC study guide already and have been reviewing several NIST pubs.

RyanLeVier
Newcomer I