What CISSP Still Proves That a Stack of Tool Certs Doesn't
Look at almost any security resume and you will find a wall of product badges. A cloud provider's associate cert, a SIEM vendor's operator credential, an EDR platform's specialist track, maybe a firewall qualification or two. Every vendor runs a certification program, every tool ships a badge, and collecting them is a reasonable way to prove you can do the job in front of you.