CISSP is pretty essential for entry into (or a continued career in) the infosec job world. When I got mine in Feb 02 I had several years of experience in infosec so it was a question of studying, primarily, the All In One CISSP Certification book as well as the Exam Cram CISSP book. I’d recommend these to others. Some find success going to a boot camp.
I’d encourage those without the requisite experience and knowledge to at least try to gain that in a specialty area first (e.g., you’re a network admin? find your way into administrating your firewalls. System admin? Start getting involved in host hardening; do research / reading on infosec on the side specific to your area). Happy to help/adivse/whatever.
Every couple weeks I try to post to my blog some of my lessons learned and some other thoughts about infosec that I hope may help those interested in the subject. http://shimsec.blogspot.com/ Lots of other (better :)) resources out there for infosec. Best of luck and let me know if I can help.
