12/3 Another great session with May Brooks coming up stay tuned for the details! May is one of the most respected CISSP instructors worldwide. She’s a ISC2 Board Member, co-author of the Official CISSP Study Guide, TEDx speaker, bestselling author (Scams, Hacking, and Cybersecurity), and a recognized leader in the global infosec community. Here’s what this means for you: 📚 Saturday Study Group Takeover - This is a chance to learn directly from one of the best and show her what Study Group is all about. 💡 CPE Credit – You can self-submit for 2 CPE credits for attending any Study Group session. 🎤 Pop-In Q&A – Keep joining Study Groups, because you never know when May might drop in for a quick Q&A. 🤝 Exciting Collaboration – This is just the beginning. May is supporting our community as the go-to place for those just starting, self-studying, or looking for a group to prepare for the CISSP with peers. Let’s pack Study Group and bring our best energy to show May the strength of our community. Show May your appreciation in the comments!

A large financial services company is updating its security testing program. The red team reports that modern AI-driven attack tools can automatically craft polymorphic payloads, evade signature-based controls, and generate targeted spear-phishing content indistinguishable from human-written messages.The CISO wants to ensure that the organization’s security testing program can accurately measure resilience against these new capabilities. Which testing approach MOST effectively validates the organization’s defenses against AI-augmented attack techniques? A. Perform quarterly vulnerability scans using updated threat signatures and CVE databases. B. Conduct adversarial machine learning (AML) evaluations to measure susceptibility to model poisoning and evasion attacks. C. Integrate AI-enabled BAS (Breach and Attack Simulation) tools that continuously replicate evolving attacker TTPs across email, endpoint, and network layers. D. Run annual red-team exercises focused on social engineering and spear-phishing campaigns executed manually by trained personnel.

Proud to say that I passed the CISSP today. My strategies were to simply: 1. Use ai 2. Ask copilot to design a reading schedule to breakdown the book into manageable Active reading sessions. 3. Tell it each chapter start page and end page so it know how many pages each chapter is. 4. Tell it the percentage of each domain and which domains are in each chapter. 5. Tell it your test date or your goal to read the entire book. 6. Ask it to design a table that shows the date, time commitment, the task, the chapters and domains, and the number of pages to read. Make sure it makes sense to you. Ask it to refactor based on what you believe you can achieve. Its good to be honest with yourself and copilot here. 7. refactor your reading schedule as necessary. factor in days off, rest, and practice tests in between domains to measure and reinforce recall. 1. I did a chapter a week for three months straight every evening at 6pm. Saturday's I would try to read a whole chapter. Sundays are reserved for rest or practice questions. 2. Read each chapter from beginning to end... *a must* 3. Do the written labs for each chapter... *a must* 4. Do each chapter review. ... *a must* 1. Buy LearnZapp and/or Quantum Exams 2. Both are great.. having both helped with test taking skill building. 3. Take practice tests on weekend and domain review questions and go through each domain as you work through the book. 4. by reading each of the chapters and taking notes. And doing real world application and correlation to anchor the principles with prior experience you'll get the hang of what it intends to teach and groom you into... to thinking like upper management and not an engineer... focusing more on policy that technical solutions... 5. I was able to recall and correlate different domains with the questions that were presented in the actual test better this way. Took me two tries and about 400 hours... of honest focused study.

🚀🐦‍🔥☕️ Excited to share that I have provisionally passed the #CISSP exam from ISC2 👏👏👏 This journey took months of focused effort and discipline, including overcoming a previous failed attempt 😬. I was devastated after that first try, but I learned that you can't let one setback derail the entire goal. The key was to refocus and change my mindset. For me, my faith was essential in keeping the right attitude and posture. Thanks to my family, friends and coworkers ( I cannot mention all of them in this post, but you know who you are 😁) they kept me cheering on to pass. My study process looked like this: 🤓📚👓📖Months 1-2: I dedicated this time to improving my technical vocabulary and deeply understanding the concepts using the Destination Certification Inc. book and app , the Official ISC2 #CISSP #Study #Guide and coaching from coworkers. This involved reviewing areas from my first attempt that I knew I hadn't fully grasped. ⚙️Month 3: I shifted to practicing quizzes and questions to solidify my understanding and improve my speed and accuracy with key terms. Being intentional with the timing and separating calendar time and shared with my family. (Use AI to sort a plan for you if you need so) 👓Month 4: I started taking full practice exams, quizzes and vocabulary terms. Doing hand made review notes. Once I was consistently scoring and a passing range across multiple tests, I felt confident enough to book the exam and focus on my weakest domains always having accountability with coworkers and leads. 📖🙏🤲 Beyond study strategies, the biggest factor was mental preparation. My faith was my anchor; reminding myself, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, Ph 4:3” and some other more verses I use with my kids to lift them up during their struggles, was crucial for rebuilding my confidence. For me ,this journey wasn't just about knowledge, but about resilience, determination, and faith. 🙏I’m grateful for this milestone and excited for the opportunities ahead to contribute, grow, and help others in the cybersecurity community, and also help other to achieve this .

Hello all, I am so happy to State that I have cleared my exam today. Big shout out to Vincent who created such an amazing app and the group and ofcourse our beloved May Brooks. Her quote "Train hard, Fight easy" is priceless.