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CISSP certification has become a pre-requisite for anyone looking to make a career in information security and certification provides professionals with an objective measure of competence and a globally recognised standard of achievement.

As an information security professional you should either have the CISSP certificate, be working towards it or you will be thinking about doing it in the near future.

The issue isn’t your current qualification status, it’s how current your knowledge is, in relation to the the latest development in this ever-changing field. Purchase a copy of the Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Second Edition, it will bring you bang up to date and keep you ahead of the game.
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The Guide to USMBOK organizes, distills and provides ready access to a core body of knowledge for service management that can be universally applied within service provider organizations. The guide provides a singular, coherent and consistent approach to the development of a service management system.

The guide codifies and connects the numerous elements of a service management system, service organization and operational elements. It enables the leveraging and exploitation of many disparate information sources, standards, and industry frameworks.

The author, Ian Clayton, has collected the experiences of organizations, service managers, and service professionals into one document, USMBOK Guide. Ian integrates these experiences with his own hard-won experiences and know-how, to present a common lexicon of generally accepted definitions, concepts, methods and best practices that span the customer-infrastructure continuum – USMBOK Guide
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The Project Management Institute (PMI) published the first Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide in 1987 as an attempt to document and standardize generally accepted project management information and practices.

Now in its Fourth Edition the PMBOK Guide continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement. This fourth edition has been fully revised, and offers improved consistency and greater clarification over Third Edition. (more…)