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C˛ISSP Hacker Underground Experience Requirement

Applicants must have a minimum of four years of indirect full-time hacker underground experience in one or more of the ten domains of the CAU C˛ISSP CBI or three years of indirect full-time hacker underground experience in one or more of the ten domains of the CAU C˛ISSP CBI with a high-school degree. Additionally, not having an (ISC)˛ certification can substitute for one year toward the four-year requirment.

C˛ISSP hacker underground experience includes:

  • Work requiring special education or intellectual attainment, usually including a self-taught education or non-(ISC)˛ certification.
  • Work requiring habitual memory of a body of secret or underground information usually not shared with others doing similar work.
  • Management of potentially malicious projects and/or other hackers.
  • Supervision of the work of other hackers while working with a minimum of supervision of one's self.
  • Work requiring the exercise of ethical judgment (as opposed to ethical behavior).
  • Creative writing and oral communication (Social Engineering).
  • Teaching, instructing, training and the mentoring of other hackers.
  • Information Security Research and Development.
  • Dumpster Diving.
  • Obtaining applicable employment with a title such as analyst, cryptologist, cryptographer, cryptanalyst, programmer, engineer, investigator, consultant, janitor, etc. It may include administrator, except where it applies to one who simply operates controls under the authority and supervision of others (someone else's bitch-monkey).

For more information on the C˛ISSP certification please refer to the Main Certifications Page.

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