ITPG is an award-winning provider of world-class professional education and certification programs for organizations throughout the world. Offering a broad range of services, ITPG is positioned as “the company behind the company” in assisting associations and companies educate and certify professionals as well as manage end-user and customer awareness programs, events and association membership sales and marketing.

Founded in 1998, ITPG is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia with offices in Hong Kong, London and Tokyo. Since 2001, ITPG has managed the education and certification programs of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)², the global non-profit leader in educating and certifying information security professionals and the certifying body for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional, considered the “gold standard” in the field.

ITPG is responsible for (ISC)²’s student registration and administration, course scheduling and logistics, student database management, course development, instructor management and event management. Utilizing an impressive list of subject matter experts to develop curriculum on a variety of topics and maintaining a highly professional instructor corps, ITPG has delivered (ISC)² curriculum to some of the world’s leading government agencies and businesses. These include various agencies in the U.S. federal government, including the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce and Department of the Interior, as well as other government entities worldwide such as the Malaysian Cyber Security Agency; and major corporations with international operations such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Deloitte, as well as NTT Communications in Tokyo. ITPG has developed and currently manages more than 75 corporate affiliates who sell (ISC)² services around the world. ITPG staff speak fluent Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Farsi, and Korean.

As the education arm of (ISC)², ITPG has played a key role in the dramatic growth of one of the most respected and fastest-growing professional organizations in the technology field. Since ITPG took responsibility for (ISC)²’s education and certification programs almost five years ago, (ISC)² has grown from 3,500 to 50,000 members worldwide, increased student education from 1000 students to 7,000 annually, increased exam candidates from 2,000 to 16,000 annually, and now conducts education seminars in 500 venues in 40 different countries. The non-profit (ISC)²’s revenues have increased correspondingly from $4 million to more than $23 million annually.

ITPG has gained industry recognition for its efforts by winning back-to-back awards from SC Magazine at the RSA Conference in 2006 and 2007 on behalf of (ISC)² in the “Best Professional Training Program” category.

ITPG provides similar education and certification services to both professional associations and private companies, including Hewlett Packard, PatchLink, CellTrust, and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Its partnership with BCI, a global business continuity management association, includes the development and administration of the Associate Business Continuity Institute (ABCI) certification program, which consists of a certification examination and an e-learning education component, based upon the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG).