To get a CISSP certification, all you had to do was pay (ISC)2 a few hundred dollars and take a test. The same piece of paper advertising the test also offered special “CISSP training seminars” that were designed to help prospective test-takers pass the course. Some of these consultants were teenagers whose main claim to fame was being arrested by the FBI for breaking into a computer system. The whole trend of hiring so-called “reformed hackers” made legitimate practitioners green with envy, and disgust.”]
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