One of the core tenants of the ISSEP certification from day one was the Technical Program Management domain. It was near and dear to my lonely heart. I fought for it and the Systems Engineering domain at every opportunity in order to shape the certification into something that reflected deep technical knowledge and was globally applicable (yes we took out US Government Regulations). The certification became the life blood for real engineers building trustworthy systems. They understood engineering process and principals and knew how and when to apply that knowledge.
Looking at the latest domain changes you wouldn't know that. The new domains have morphed into what the next generation see's as important - engineering has lost important ground. It makes we sad. Those principals died fast when there were no Engineers at the discussion table. Sadly, those domains have become homogenized into something like a CISSP domain. ISSEP/Engineers please go forth and in the next JTA and fix this!
Now that you have heard my heart breaking story, I will say I am proud to be a Security Engineer and a Cyber Security Technical Program Manager (TPM). I love NIST, ISO/IEC, and INCOSE standards. What's next? Applying systems security engineering principals to the Cloud. Possibly, as a Cloud Security Architect. Driving the design and implementation of large cyber solutions as a TPM.
Be all that you can be. Be an Engineer and stay true to the discipline. Wear that Engineers ring proudly. Take care my friend!
