CCSP vs CISSP: Is CCSP harder than CISSP?

As we noted above, (ISC)2 has another certification for upper-level security pros with a fair amount of industry experience: Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP. The biggest difference between them is that the CISSP exam draws from a much broader and more general pool of security knowledge: it’s meant to show that you can design, implement, and manage a cybersecurity program at the enterprise level. CCSP, by contrast, is entirely cloud focused. It covers less ground than CISSP—and indeed, the CISSP exam is twice as long as CCSP’s. But CCSP is also more in-depth on cloud topics.

A thread on the (ISC)2 community forums offers some interesting insight into how different people who have taken, or are considering taking, both exams approach the question of which is harder—and in what order you should take the two exams.