Most annoying certification on the planet...
So as an Infosec professional of (too) many years standing, I have to congratulate ISC2 on their brilliant strategy in pushing CISSP as the one cert to rule them all...
I'm constantly fascinated by the obsession of recruitment agents with this particular certification, above experience and other actually useful certifications. I've even been asked, "So you've got 20 years experience, all these SANS/GIAC certs and a CISM, but do you have a CISSP?"... You can imagine what my reply was!
I was even more fascinated when many years ago someone showed me their Australian Visa application form where you can get extra points for having one... On what planet does that make any sense?
In 20 years of working in the industry, I have seen a lot of trends come and go, but hats off to ISC2, they've managed to maintain the CISSP = Security trend far longer than I ever thought possible...
I have never had one, I will never have one, I decided a long time ago that I will only do Certs from organisations that I feel contribute to the industry (Hence SANS/GIAC and ISACA) and not ones that are just self perpetuating nonsense...
I will always associate CISSP with that horrible period in the industry when it all went very compliance oriented and all these little CISSP monkeys were running around talking about "controls" without a clue between them of how to implement one...