@LArchinal wrote:
Caute_cautim
Thank you very much for this helpful insight. I really appreciate when members of the community that have the experience I am looking for share it with others in the community. Please continue sharing and helping the community grow.
On another note, I see that you have the ISSAP; What was your study path like and how long did it take you and what were your resources?
My approach was to review the curriculum, and go back to basics, to ensure that my fundamental principles and understanding were strengthen by going back through the core CISSP learning's. I did this by going through the original CISSP examination guides both physically, and online to test my and gauge my own understanding, so it was not just "I think I know the principles". So, I very much tested my baselines against the ISSAP curriculum. I then invested in the ISC2 ISSAP online virtual education sessions, and the associated CBK. I found this absolutely brilliant, not only were the lecturers and engaging with other students online at the time, but being able to go back through the virtual recorded sessions. This helped me not only gain greater insights, but also to apply them to my working environment. So I found by applying the techniques directly, fundamentally strengthen my learning capabilities. I did the usual thing of investing in an authorised examination set of questions, this helped tremendously in terms of understanding the style of the questions being asked, and how they would be asked. Because of this, I felt ready to take the examination online subsequently.
It was also one of the core themes throughout the training, make sure you understand and can apply the fundamental principles directly without having to think about it. In other words, rely on ones brain to analyse the situation in front of you, and objectively come up with logical conclusions.
I hope this helps, we all learn in different ways, and we take different approaches to ensure we are prepared to the best of our capabilities. But definitely the investment in the ISSAP virtual sessions, took the guesswork out of it all, and brought the reality of what was needed to gain this concentration.
To me this was an essential investment.
