2 Reasons Why ISC2 Adding SC-200 And SC-300 To The CISSP Approved Credential List Is A Good Thing

The ISC2 has added Microsoft certifications SC-200 Security Operations Analyst and SC-300 IAM Administrator to its CISSP approved credential list. The CISSP approved credential list has all of the certifications that would waive 1 year of the 5-year full-time cybersecurity work experience as part of the CISSP endorsement process. Here are my 2 reasons why this is a good thing.

2 Reasons Why Is This A Good Thing

• ISC2 is seeing the value of other vendors
• SC-200 and SC-300 are associate certifications not expert certifications

ISC2 Is Seeing The Value of Other Vendors

Many times, accreditation bodies are insular only favoring their own certifications for transfer credit. Case in point, ISC2 has CAP, CCSP and SSCP are the CISSP approved credential list. All three exams are created by ISC2.

Adding SC-200 and SC-300 Microsoft certifications mean that Microsoft has met the standard and its certification holders have the cybersecurity knowledge to be potential CISSP candidates.

SC-200 and SC-300 Are Associate Certifications

ISC2 approved SC-100 Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect Expert for its CISSP list first. This is an expert exam. This also means that it would cost more to get the 1-year experience waiver. There are three levels with Microsoft certifications: fundamentals, associate and expert.

Using this example, you would have to take SC-900 Microsoft Security Fundamentals, either SC-200 or SC-300 (you can also pass AZ-500 Azure Security Technologies and MS-500 Microsoft 365 Security Administrator to sit for the SC-100 exam), and then SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert exam. Now that ISC2 has added SC-200 and SC-300 to its CISSP approved credential list, this saves you money (at least $165 as of this printing).

It is a great move that ISC2 has add these two Microsoft Security associate certifications because this would open to CISSP applicant to more qualified cybersecurity professionals.

Originally published at https://carlarjenkins.com on December 15, 2022.