Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

CISM means higher earning potential and career advancement. Recent independent studies consistently rank CISM as one of the highest paying and sought after IT certifications.

Enhance your competitive advantage

Demonstrate your information security management expertise.

The uniquely management-focused CISM certification promotes international security practices and recognizes the individual who manages, designs, and oversees and assesses an enterprise’s information security.

CISM Impacts Your Career and Your Organization

The demand for skilled information security management professionals is on the rise, and the CISM certification is the globally accepted standard of achievement in this area.

CISMs understand the business. They know how to manage and adapt technology to their enterprise and industry.

CISM Certification:

• Demonstrates your understanding of the relationship between an information security program and broader business goals and objectives
• Distinguishes you as having not only information security expertise, but also knowledge and experience in the development and management of an information security program
• Puts you in an elite peer network
• Is considered essential to ongoing education, career progression and value delivery to enterprises.

Why Employers Hire CISMs?

Enterprises and government agencies increasingly recognize, require and expect their IS and IT professionals to hold CISM certification. .

CISM employees:

• Identify critical issues and customize company-specific practices to support the governance of information and related technologies
• Bring credibility to the enterprise for which they are employed
• Take a comprehensive view of information systems security management and their relationship to organizational success
• Demonstrate to enterprise customers their commitment to compliance, security and integrity; ultimately contributing to the attraction and retention of customers
• Ensure that there is improved alignment between the organization's information security program and its broader goals and objectives
• Provide the enterprise with a certification for Information security management that is recognized by multinational clients and enterprises, lending credibility to the enterprise

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has accredited the CISM certification program under ISO/IEC 17024:2012, General Requirements for Bodies Operating Certification Systems of Persons. ANSI, a private, nonprofit organization, accredits other organizations to serve as third-party product, system and personnel certifiers. ISACA is proud to be recognized with this international standard of performance.

In accordance with the ISO standard, ISACA understands the importance of impartiality and commits to act impartially in carrying out its certification activities, managing conflicts of interest and ensuring the objectivity of its certification activities.