@Capysec Security Research

  BACKGROUND: I took this certification exam with around 4 months of experience in Information Security and with over 2 years of general IT experience. With that said, no experience is required in order to take the exam, however 1 year of "relevant" experience is required to obtain the full certification, otherwise you will only receive the "Associate of (ISC)2" title, which can be upgraded to the full certification when the experience requirements are met. The reason I took this exam was because my current employer offers a fully free discount on (ISC)2 exams specifically. I planned on initially studying for and attempting CISSP, however I decided to take SSCP first in order to get a feel for how (ISC)2 specifically likes to word their exam questions, as all of my previous IT certifications have been through CompTIA. EXPERIENCE: My mindset for this exam was similar to the mindset that I had when studying for the CompTIA Security+ exam. I did not buy a book however....

  BACKGROUND: This is my most recent certification that I obtained back in January 2020. I obtained this cert after the Net+ Sec+ and CySA+ certifications. At the time of me taking this exam I had around 2 years of IT experience but no experience working in Cybersecurity. EXPERIENCE: I primarily used Jason Dion's PenTest+ course on Udemy. As I have stated previously, I highly recommend Jason Dion's certification courses.  I watched Dion's entire course while taking handwritten notes on nearly everything. I did this for about 5 days. The next few days I was able to obtain the Sybex 1000 Practice Question book from a friend as a gift. This book while helpful in some aspects, was very similar to the book that I had purchased for CySA+ also from Sybex. The questions are much more difficult than what is on the test, and introduce too much unnecessary information that is not included in the PenTest+ exam objectives. After skimming through the practice question book, I scheduled t...

BACKGROUND: I took this exam with over a year and a half of experience in IT, already having obtained the Security+ certification. I had no experience working in Cybersecurity at the time of me taking this exam. I studied for a month, using various material and techniques to help supplement my studies. EXPERIENCE: I started off by purchasing the CompTIA CySA+ CS0-001 "All-in-One" certification guide from Amazon. I read this book front to back once, and although I do think that it is a fine source of study material, I don't know if I would recommend it. I did not feel like I absorbed as much information from this book as I should have, nor did it feel like a good chunk of the material in the book was relevant to the actual exam.  After that, I purchased Jason Dion's CySA+ CS0-001 course on Udemy. As I mentioned in my Network+ Study guide, I HIGHLY recommend Jason Dion's Udemy courses. I took handwritten notes throughout the entire course and filled up nearly 20 pag...