• Sharen C Soucie
• 300-745 SDSI , CCNP Automation , CCNP Security Certification , Cisco , Cisco CCNP , Network Security Career Advice , Zero Trust & Identity Security
• May 27, 2026
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Is Cisco 300-745 SDSI Worth It in 2026? The Truth About Cisco Security Careers

The introduction to most certification articles usually sounds the same.

Big claims. Big salary promises. Lists of “top skills.”

That’s not really what’s happening in enterprise security right now.

The bigger story is that a lot of infrastructure security teams are quietly going through an identity shift. You can feel it in architecture review meetings, migration calls, cloud governance discussions, even random late-night change windows.

People who spent years becoming very good at traditional network security work suddenly find themselves pulled into conversations about identity trust models, Terraform pipelines, AI governance, API visibility, and SaaS access controls.

Not everyone enjoys that transition.

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