Hello everybody! past Friday I have passed the CISSP exam! Incredible! I wanna thank you this group especially for giving me every day some "reminder" that I had to study That has improved my perseverance in reaching this goal. Let me tell you, if you really want, you will pass this exam! It is very challenging but it is doable. For me it was a marathon, not a sprint. I started 1 year ago following a 6 days bootcamp that was based on the All in One book; that was very useful for me to have a general idea on all the domains and for the first time to finish all the domains; I had tried on the past by reading the OSG book, but no way to complete it, too boring. Meanwhile the exam was going to change, so I decided to wait couple of months. Around august, I went on Udemy and bought the Thor Pederson videos, which is based on the OSG book . Videos are nice, cause you can watch on free time, regulate the speed, review, etc.. But I tend to think that you will have a passive approach with that. I begon also to look on the web, reading about other people stories (Reddit, discord, this group) ; that is also very valuable, cause I started to have an idea about how the exam was made; how is working the CAT, where to look for more videos and to find my strategy. I decided lastly to focus on fixing some concepts that I had difficulty to memorize using the learzapp, like all those US laws and regulations, terrible :-) Last 2 months I did about 2000 questions and 4 tests; doing some practice almost every day. I watched also the 50 questions think like a manager video, that I advise to watch, to understand the mental switch you have to do if you are too technical, so focus on the "why" instead of the "how". Last 2 weeks I bought the Gwen Bettwey questions on Udemy; that was important because the exam style goes more in that direction than the learnZapp, in term of style and complexity. Finally, the day of the exam, I tried to create the better possible conditions for me; I went on a Friday morning (I am fresher in the morning ); I arrived 1 hour in advance to the test center, so I had the time to have a coffee, etc..I could start half hour earlier than planned.

Okay, I've set up my CISSP exam for November 5th. Wish me luck, say some prayers for me, I'm going to pass this and then go on to Security+ and CCNA.

Hi All! Please forgive the late notice, but I am unable to be at tonight's study group. The room will be open for use for whoever would like to meet and study together. Here is a link to the slides with practice questions that I had planned on using tonight. As an extra resource, I found this video (part 1 or 2) useful for getting an overview of Domain 5. We also have a previous session recording posted that covers many of the topics originally planned for this session. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Keep up your great studying! Also, I would love if you would send me your favorite, most challenging, frustrating, confusing, tricky practice questions. The more you hate 'em, the more I love 'em - send them over so we can review live in group. Again, I apologize for the late notice and hope you have a great study group together! Looking forward to being with y'all again soon. Respectfully, Josh

Has anyone worked with Upguard or any DLP solution or something similar they can recommend. Im looking for something that will flag anyone removing data, trying to access data they are not authorized to that kind of thing.

I found this article and image that helps clearify the differences between IAAS, CAAS, PAAS, FAAS, and SAAS. https://cloud.google.com/learn/paas-vs-iaas-vs-saas