Re: CISSP anyone?
^ I'd reiterate what Kaleem said... the certification exam aint difficult. In fact it's very general in its treatise of security concepts. You Do Not need to attend a course for this. Read the CISSP-BOK and you don't even need to purchase books for it. In fact, the two books I have were so boring that I didn't even read past a couple of chapters and still passed the exam.
Anyone with general ideas about authentication, access control, certificates, SET, PKI and other security architectures will do fine - there's no need to know specifics at the infrastructure level.
Yes the certification does have a continuing education requirement and somewhat of a screening process to determine your eligibility to sit for the exam as well.