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The NY Metro Chapter is offering a one free day of CISSP training via the web on March 16th. This is an all day session from 8:30am to 6:30pm.
The topics for this day’s training are “Information Security and Risk Management” and “Access Control.”
NY Metro InfraGard - Web Event
3/16 - first day [...]

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Series: CISSP Study Sheet
Entry: Access Control
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