A prospective employer recruiting for a security role may ge

A prospective employer recruiting for a security role may get applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds in terms of experience and education.

How you would weigh the value of a four year degree, industry certifications, and vendor specific certifications?

Solution

As the employer recruiting for a security role.

Four year degree is a qualification to get applications from people for the particular role so that the candidate more aware of technologies, and can able to grasp the new changes in technology wise or innovative in the job.

vendor specific certification will be more weightage as they are more relevant to the profession. Each vendor will have its own rules for granted certifcation

for example: CISCO has cisco security specialist1 certification, Microsoft has MCP Exam 70-220 security Design

Industry certification is a certification which will analyse the person is meeting the organisation standards based on technology. so the standards may varry from organisation to organisation. Out of three, we can give 3rd priority to this.

Employer can filter the application with succesfull four year degree and give more preference to vendor specific certifcation based on the role. he can consider industry vertification if the role really needs knowlege on particular organisation tool or technology so that he will be more hands on.