Cisco is one of the leading and well-recognized companies providing services for IT professionals to upgrade their knowledge and expertise. Cisco Company is an international provider of IT certifications especially relevant to Cisco VPN and security and networking. Cisco offered security certifications are designed as a result of growing demand of specialized and expert networking professionals.

Networking professionals after earning Cisco security certification become more capable and confident to implement the security solutions for entire networking infrastructure. With increasing requirement of networking security specialists in the IT industry, Cisco has provided a range of security certifications. This available range of Cisco security certifications enables the networking personnel to upgrade as well as validate their skills in particular areas of information technology. These focused areas may include the following:

• Network access security utilizing Cisco IOS Software
• Cisco PIX Firewall Technologies
• Configuration of VPN (virtual private networks) across shared public networks.

Cisco VPN certification is one of the most popular Cisco Security Associate certifications. In order to get this valuable credential, candidates are required to appear and pass the following two exams.

• 642-551 Exam-SND (Securing Cisco Network Devices)
• 642-511 Exam-CSVPN (Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks)

A valid CCNA certification is set as a prerequisite to appear in the Cisco VPN certification exam.

Cisco VPN and Security Exams

VPN 642-501
VPN 642-511
VPN 642-521
VPN 642-531
VPN 642-541
VPN 642-551
VPN 642-552