Studying for the Industrial Security Professional (SP) Certification
Reading the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) will certainly have one learning new jargon and acronyms necessary to becoming fluent in Industrial Security Professional language. Throughout the exam there are questions referring to roles of government agencies. Such questions concern which organization has oversight, which organization would a security manager report a particular incident to, or which organization inspects a certain security program. The answer could be any possibility such as government contracting agency (GCA), general services administration (GSA), Cognizant Security Agency (CSA), or any other acronym of a critical federal organization listed in the NISPOM. Consider the letters CSA which stand for Cognizant Security Agency. This acronym appears 250 times throughout the NISPOM between chapters one and eleven. The multiple listings pretty much conclude that the CSA plays an important role in managing the National Industrial Secur...