The mounting cybersecurity challenges facing organizations worldwide show no sign of slowing. Not only the shortage of qualified cybersecurity staff but also the lack of security awareness and skills among employees remain the biggest concerns, according to the 2021 Cloud Security Report by Cybersecurity Insiders.

Global need for cybersecurity experts specializing in cloud security is growing demand for certification. But with so many credentials out there, which most effectively demonstrates the broad knowledge and skills required to secure any cloud environment? Let’s compare three leading certifications: (ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) vs. Symantec Certified Specialist-Administration of Symantec Cloud Workload Protection-R1 and Symantec Certified Specialist-Administration of Symantec Cloud SOC-R2.

CCSP is a vendor-neutral certification that demonstrates the broad knowledge to successfully secure any cloud environment, regardless of vendor affiliation. It proves expert skills and experience in cloud security design, implementation, architecture, operations, controls, and compliance with the full range of regulatory frameworks. The globally recognized certification is available from (ISC)², the creators of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Common Body of Knowledge.

Symantec Certified Specialist-Administration of Symantec Cloud Workload Protection-R1 focuses on mastering Symantec Cloud Workload Protection to provide cloud-native security with automatic discovery for public cloud workloads.

Symantec Certified Specialist-Administration of Symantec Cloud SOC-R2 focuses on configuring and administering the Symantec CloudSOC product in a security operations role.

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