Society of Payment Security Professionals - Payment Security Blog

CPISM bootcamp and exam a success

After long and arduous work on behalf of the SPSP and many others, and after several private classes of the CPISM, the very first public bootcamp and exam proctoring occurred in Salt Lake City, UT last week.  Even a short while after I see people updating their LinkedIn profiles with this designation.

It was so successful that the SPSP immediately booked another class in Dallas in November for not only the CPISM, but also the new CPISA.  People have already been signing up and I expect these classes to sell out as well.  In fact David Bergert, author of Payment Systems Blog, has already blogged about his registration.

Every place I go people are asking how they can become a QSA.  The problem is, you cannot hold the designation of QSA unless you work for a QSA company, which requires a formal application and attestation to the PCI SSC.  And, if you ever leave the QSA company you work for you loose any right to call yourself a QSA.  This is why the SPSP has create the CPISA/CPISM for those “across the table from” the QSA.  So you can hold your own in conversations and discussions regarding the payments industry and compliance.