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It's full name is the Certified Information Systems Security Professional. There's a good writeup of the problems with CISSP here:

https://infosecisland.com/blogview/15450-My-Canons-on-ISC-Et...

and here:

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/07/ethical-problems-of-ci...

It's often described as 'a mile wide and an inch deep'. However, it's not really the example of broad security knowledge it sets out to be and is considered a joke certification in my niche (technical security).



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Interesting. I've been considering working towards it, but if competent security professionals think it's a joke.... :-)

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