RE: CISSP awareness in Europe

["marco misitano" <misi () cisco com>]

I can speak for my Italy, which appears to be the country where you do work as
well, according to your website. 
CISSP is fairly well recognised among the security professionals. There is an
increasing number of CISSPs (have a look at
https://www.isc2.org/cgi/directory.cgi ) and there are dedicated mailing lists
such as cisspitalia.org. Sure, there still is a wide audience that hasn't heard
of CISSP, but this is changing quite nimbly.

~mm
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Alessandro Bottonelli [mailto:abottonelli () libero it] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 19:39
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: CISSP awareness in Europe


Hi all,

is there anyone in the list in Europe (or who has worked extensively in 
Europe in the Security business) who has a grasp of how much value the CISSP 
certification has in Europe (and more specifically in Southern Europe) ?

Although I've been working in Security Consulting for quite a while now, I am 
under the impression that most potential employers / clients don't even know 
what CISSP is, and if they know they don't care much (at least south of the 
UK).

I'd like to know if this is just an impression of mine or what. Anyone can 
share their opinions/experiences?

Cheers,

-- 
Alessandro Bottonelli
Information Security Consultant
www.axis-net.it


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