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In today’s environment of emerging security threats, the U.S. Department of Defense has recognized the critical need for highly-qualified, experienced information assurance personnel. To ensure a knowledgeable and skilled workforce the DoD has taken the necessary steps to develop a directive that involves the credentialing and continuing education of all DoD employees with privileged access to DoD information systems.
Specifically, the U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570.1, signed in August of 2004, requires every full- and part-time military service member, defense contractor, civilian and foreign employee with privileged access to a DoD system, regardless of job series or occupational specialty, to obtain a commercial certification credential that has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
The draft manual, 8570.1M, specifies that the Department of Defense requires approximately 110,000 identified Information Assurance professionals to be certified within a five year time period. The Defense Information Assurance Program office has divided its Information Assurance workforce into six defined categories (see chart below). The manual also specifies the types of commercial information assurance credentials that qualify for each of the defined categories.
| IAT Level I | IAT Level II | IAT Level III | ||||
| A+ – CE | CCNA-Security | CASP | ||||
| Network+ CE | GSEC | CISA | ||||
| SSCP | Security+ CE | CISSP (or Associate) | ||||
| CCNA-Security | SSCP | GCED | ||||
| GCIH | ||||||
| IAM Level I | IAM Level II | IAM Level III | ||||
| CAP | CAP | CISM | ||||
| GCLC | CASP | CISSP (or Associate) | ||||
| Security+ CE | CISM | GSLC | ||||
| CISSP (or Associate) | ||||||
| GSLC | ||||||
| IASAE I | IASAE II | IASAE III | ||||
| CASP | CASP | CISSP – ISSEP | ||||
| CISSP (or Associate) | CISSP (or Associate) | CISSP – ISSAP | ||||
| CSSLP | CSSLP | |||||
| CND Infrastructure CND Incident | ||||||
| CND Analyst | Support | Responder | CND Auditor | CND-SP Manager | ||
| GCIA | SSCP | CEH | CEH | CISSP-ISSMP | ||
| GCIH | CEH | CSIH | CISA | CISM | ||
| CSFA | GSNA | |||||
| GCIH | ||||||