New Goal: BS IT-Security at WGU.

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Useless maybe as far as proving your knowledge to your peers, but very useful when it comes to HR checkboxes. CompTIA is what they love to see for whatever reason, Since every new job he's gotten for the last 10+ years has been through a recruiter or a friend, he hasn't had to apply and go through that hiring process like normal, so I didn't think about it from that perspective. Also, it depends on the position you're going for, and how high level it is - he hasn't had to meet any HR checkboxes yet. He's in IT sales (sales engineer) so they're not looking for CompTIA certs at his level. They're looking at his relationships with customers and things like that. And, as someone who worked in HR for a long time, I did not tell the hiring manager what I thought was important, he/she told me what they wanted to see, so I guess I still don't see it from that perspective. But I believe you if you say so.

and Security+ can meet required DoD hiring security qualifications. Not applicable to him, but good to know.

CCSP/SSCP are good, EC CIH is... okay. ITIL Foundations isn't bad to have (though obviously not cybersec specific). CCSP and SSCP are applicable to his job, so his company will pay for them. And it will be useful to have on his resume. I will have him look more into the EC-CIH and ITIL.

CISSP requires 5 years professional industry experience (consecutive I believe), which is a hard sell for a bachelors program where many people will be new to the field professionally (or not yet in the field at all). I forgot about that part. He's had it before, and it's one of the certs that helped get his foot in the door at the beginning (obviously at least 5 years into his career). I forget that some people going for this degree won't have the experience necessary.

Always good to get other people's perspective jsd, thanks.