Chapter 1: SSCP Certification Overview

Introduction

As we begin to prepare for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) examination, let's first take a look at how the preparation for this exam can help you to prepare and qualify for higher-level certifications that you might want to pursue later in your career. Fortunately, much of the preparation and learning that you will do for the SSCP examination and certification will help give you the fundamental background information you can apply to the next level of certification, the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Here we briefly review the history and development of the credentials and the organization responsible for them, and then we review the requirements and areas of study that we'll be discussing throughout the book.