Hi Everyone! I received the following message from ISC2 three days after writing the CISSP exam, but I haven’t been able to update the platform until now due to urgent family matters. The message read: "Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have passed the Certified Information Systems Security Professional examination. You have successfully completed the first step toward earning your certification and becoming an ISC2 member..." From my experience, I’ve learned that the key to passing is understanding the core concepts and how they apply in real-world cybersecurity scenarios. Practice tests help, but not as much as truly grasping the principles. Thank you.

A multinational corporation is in the process of merging its IT infrastructure with a recently acquired company. The goal is to allow seamless access to corporate resources for employees from both organizations while maintaining security and compliance with regulatory requirements. The acquired company's infrastructure uses a different identity provider than the parent company. As the lead IAM architect, you need to design a solution that supports Single Sign-On (SSO) for both companies' users accessing shared resources. Which identity federation protocol should you recommend implementing to achieve this integration while ensuring secure authentication and authorization? Options: A. Option A: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) B. Option B: OAuth 2.0 C. Option C: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) D. Option D: Kerberos

As the lead cybersecurity engineer for a medium-sized financial institution, you are tasked with reviewing and improving the organization's disaster recovery plan. The organization recently experienced a significant outage due to a failure in the primary data center caused by a natural disaster. The disaster recovery plan involves replicating critical systems and data to a secondary site located 200 miles away. However, during the recent outage, it was discovered that the replication lag was substantial, resulting in significant data loss. Which of the following changes would most effectively enhance the disaster recovery strategy to minimize data loss? Options: A. Upgrade the network bandwidth between the primary and secondary sites to support real-time data replication. B. Implement a tape-based backup solution at the primary site and store tapes off-site for redundancy. C. Increase the frequency of scheduled data replications from daily to twice daily. D. Deploy a cloud-based backup solution to periodically store snapshots of critical systems. Study more at: www.cissp.app

I took and passed the CISSP exam yesterday, Friday May 16th, with 17 minutes to spare! I didn't take this exam alone. I walked into the exam hall with a virtual tribe of individuals lifting me on their shoulders. Their confidence in me, dispelled all of my fears and anxiety. Sitting in front of the examination computer, the questions seemed clear to me, even if my fundamentals may have been a bit fuzzy. I would not have passed the exam without the support of this Skool platform, our CISSP Community Study Group (CSG) and the personal connections that I have made via the study groups. Here is my attempt to thank everyone. If I missed someone, please attribute it to my excitement. @Christopher Schneider for introducing me to this platform, @Rebecca Kirk for suggesting that we form a Community Study Group(CSG), @Vincent Primiani for providing the platform, @Fouad Ahmed for motivational support and lots of great documents, @Shane Symons for supporting the group, our CSG members: @Annette Corona @Timilehin Ajibade @Maurice Lightfoot @Taiye Olorundare @Stan Lyubarskiy @Tahjar R @Mario Rasathurai @Reggie Johnson, @Randy Rempel. Special thanks to @Venkat Ayyer @Babur Farooq, @Peter Marie, who passed but continue to support the CSG and @Jolian Stephens @Martín Figueroa for the late night Quantum Question reviews. There are so many more..... My main resources: Original Study Guide: Nineth and Tenth Editions (Wiley Test Bank too)

Your company is adopting a DevSecOps approach for a new application that handles payment card information. During development, a developer suggests disabling input validation temporarily to accelerate integration testing. What is the BEST response from a security perspective? A. Allow the change, provided it is reversed before production deployment. B. Deny the request and enforce secure coding practices at all times. C. Suggest using synthetic test data and maintain all security controls. D. Use a separate insecure test environment to allow faster progress.