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[martin]

Having spent many years working in health care information technology, I felt a need for some kind of an official certificate. The problem is that it is very hard for people to rate the value of our advice, since much of what we tell people sounds like magic anyway. Being an MD seems to make things worse; a doctor is not expected to know that much about technology.

Anyway, from now on, I've got five more letters behind my name. I'm pretty sure being both an (experienced and licensed) MD and an (experienced and certified) information security professional will turn out to be very useful. The CISSP certification is maintained by (ISC)2, which has also achieved both ISO and ANSI accreditation for this credential. This is what Dr Roy Swift of ANSI had to say about the CISSP: