The ITS3 Cyber-Guardian Certified Professional:
It is very simple. There just aren't enough "true experts" in the field, and jobs (even in a depressed economy) remain unfilled. The point is this — it takes time and patience to develop the "I can do it skills" employers want, crave, and require. So, we intend to do something about it.
As the ITS3 Cyber-Guardian™ Corps develops, our graduates will be available for direct hire to employers or they may be retained as ITS3 sub-contractors for assignments in Project Management, IS/IT Auditors, Data Center Operations and Management, Network Security Analysts, Network Migration Specialists, and other DoD 8570.1 compliant assignments.
The rule of the marketplace is to always give the customer what they want. As we have mentioned earlier in our site, employers want three or four things from job candidates in the IS/IT field and especially in the cyber-security theatre.
And here is what the "market" wants:
• A Bachelor's or a Master's Degree in Cyber-Security Information Systems
• IT Certifications that demonstrate your knowledge of current technologies
• Actual "field" experience or qualifying job internship or externships
• Vendor-neutral "skill verification" from a peer-reviewed mentor-tutor-colleague
All of these combined and integrated together help the decision maker to have enough information and confidence in you to make you a job offer. But, don't take our word at it. According to the US News & World Report (March 2010, p.16) -
"The real payoff goes to people with an ever expanding set of skills who work in growing and complex fields. The highest earners are well educated, but they also have strong "tacit" and "cognitive" skills that are difficult to teach in a classroom: informed intuition, judgment under pressure, the ability to solve problems that don't have an obvious solution. Those tend to come with experience, but top earners also go to the trouble to keep up with latest technology-no matter how exhausting- and use it to solve bedeviling problems."
Requirements:
1. All ITS3 CGSC™ candidates are required to be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate college degree program in Cyber Security or already hold a degree or degrees preferably in Cyber Security, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Business Administration.
2. All candidates then participate in our proprietary ITS3 CGSC™ Professional Forums and upon completion earn the corresponding IT Certifications for that CGSC™ Level.
3. All candidates attend one CGSC™ Professional Residency per calendar year.
4. All candidates prepare and pass the ITS3 CGSC™ Professional Exam for their respective CGSC™ Level.
Always remember, the highest salaries and true job security always goes to those who excel above the crowd, and that is how we designed our program from the outset. To become a ITS3 Cyber-Guardian Security Certified Professional™ means you are committed and determined to become the very best you can be, and to an ideal deep within yourself that says "I can do this!"
If that is you, then we want to hear from you - so give us a call and let's talk!
The heart of our program is preparing for the CGSC™ Professional Exam process. It is the one aspect of our process that no one else duplicates and no one else offers. While other standard IT multiple choice vendor exams are good and have their place, there is always the nagging issue of being just "paper-certified." Employers want more than just passing these standard exams as a criteria for employment. They want to have assurance that the job candidate is truly prepared. Usually job experience does this, but there must also be a way to offer more than job experience, to move above and beyond normal expectations.
The IT education and training marketplace has really struggled with this issue. The core problem is how can any national standard be developed that will be accepted as a new "norm" for the profession? We recognized this at the onset of the CGSC™ program development and after hours and hours of research and study arrived at the conclusion that the only way to do this was to do something no one else had ever attempted.
Pre-requisites: CGSC-T™ and CGSC-A™ and either the CGSC-E™ or CGSC-M™ from the ITS3 Cyber Security Institute and a Master's Degree in Information Systems.
To earn the certification the candidate must have no less than five-years of verifiable field experience, and then successfully pass all three sections of the CGSC-P™ Professional Exam (Oral, Comprehensive/Written and Lab) to be awarded the Cyber-Guardian Security Professional Certification™.
The CGSC-IE™ Cyber Security Instructor-Examiner:
After a total of five-years of verifiable field experience, which includes your time in training with us, and holding the CGSC-P™ Professional Certification, you may apply to become a CGSC-IE™ Instructor Examiner with us.
An application fee of $100 is charged to review and verify the candidates certifications and work experience. You will then be allowed to teach and train other candidates and to proctor CGSC™ Professional Examinations.
The purpose of this track is to prepare candidates for Cyber Security Investigative roles or to work for Federal, State or Local law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime and information data systems fraud.
Pre-requisites: All coursework from the CGSC-T™ and CGSC-A™ from the ITS3 Cyber Security Institute completed or "Grandfathered" by us, and holds a Bachelor's Degree from any accredited college or university preferably with a major in Information Technology or Cyber-Security.
To earn the certification the candidate must complete the following FOUR required Cyber-Guardian Courses, Modules, or CGSC™ Forums, and be enrolled in a Master of Science degree (Information Technology or Cyber-Security) with any accredited college or university. These courses prepare you for certification in these areas but add significant depth and breadth in the field and study of Cyber-Security.
All candidates are required to have earned the IC-EEC Certified Ethical Hacker certification before beginning their programs which is normally completed in the CGSC-T™ program.
To earn the CGSC-HF™ Professional Certification the candidate must complete the following four required Cyber-Guardian Forums:
The purpose of this track is to prepare candidates for Cyber Security Management or Supervisory roles.
Pre-requisites: All coursework from the CGSC-T™ and CGSC-A™ from the ITS3 Cyber Security Institute completed or "Grandfathered" by us, and holds a Bachelor's Degree from any accredited college or university preferably with a major in Information Technology or Cyber-Security.
All candidates are also required to have earned the ISACA Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) before beginning their programs which is normally completed in the CGSC-T™ program.
To earn the certification the candidate must complete the following FOUR required Cyber-Guardian Courses, Modules, or CGSC™ Forums, and be enrolled in a Master of Science degree (Information Technology or Cyber-Security) with any accredited college or university. These courses prepare you for certification in these areas but add significant depth and breadth in the field and study of Cyber-Security.
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