Certified Information Systems Security

Course Description

Official (ISC)²® Training Seminar for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) provides a comprehensive review of the knowledge required to effectively design, engineer and manage the overall security posture of an organization. This training course will help students review and refresh their knowledge and identify areas they need to study for the CISSP exam. Content aligns with and comprehensively covers the eight domains of the (ISC)² CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®), ensuring relevancy across all disciplines in the field of cybersecurity.

Official courseware is developed by (ISC)² – creator of the CISSP CBK – to ensure your training is relevant and up-to-date. Our instructors are verified security experts who hold the CISSP and have completed intensive training to teach (ISC)² content.

Who Should Take The CISSP

This certification is ideal for experienced professionals in the following roles:

Security and Risk Management
Asset Security
Security Architecture and Engineering
Communication and Network Security
Identity and Access Management(IAM)
Security Assessment and Testing
Security Operations
Software Development Security

Domain 1:
Security and Risk Management

1.1 Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics

(ISC)² Code of Professional Ethics
Organizational code of ethics

1.2 Understand and apply security concepts

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability, authenticity and nonrepudiation

1.3 Evaluate and apply security governance principles

Alignment of the security function to business strategy, goals, mission, and objectives
Organizational processes (e.g., acquisitions, divestitures, governance committees)
Organizational roles and responsibilities
Security control frameworks
Due care/due diligence

1.4 Determine compliance and other requirements

Contractual, legal, industry standards, and regulatory requirements
Privacy requirements

1.5 Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context

Cybercrimes and data breaches
Licensing and Intellectual Property (IP) requirements

Import/export controls
Transborder data flow
Privacy

1.6 Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)

1.7 Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines

1.8 Identify, analyze, and prioritize Business Continuity (BC) requirements

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Develop and document the scope and the plan

1.9 Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures

Candidate screening and hiring
Employment agreements and policies
Onboarding, transfers, and termination processes
Vendor, consultant, and contractor agreements and controls

Compliance policy requirements
Privacy policy requirements

1.10 Understand and apply risk management concepts

Identify threats and vulnerabilities
Risk assessment/analysis
Risk response
Countermeasure selection and implementation
Applicable types of controls (e.g., preventive, detective, corrective)

Control assessments (security and privacy)
Monitoring and measurement
Reporting
Continuous improvement (e.g., Risk maturity modeling)
Risk frameworks

1.11 Understand and apply threat modeling concepts and methodologies

1.12 Apply Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) concepts

Risks associated with hardware, software, and services
Third-party assessment and monitoring

Minimum security requirements
Service level requirements

1.13 Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program

Methods and techniques to present awareness and training (e.g., social engineering, phishing, security champions, gamification)
Periodic content reviews
Program effectiveness evaluation

Domain 2:
Asset Security

2.1 Identify and classify information and assets

Data classification
Asset Classification

2.2 Establish information and asset handling requirements

2.3 Provision resources securely

Information and asset ownership
Asset inventory (e.g., tangible, intangible)
Asset management

2.4 Manage data lifecycle

Data roles (i.e., owners, controllers, custodians, processors, users/subjects)
Data collection
Data location

Data maintenance
Data retention
Data remanence
Data destruction

2.5 Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g., End-of-Life (EOL), End-of-Support (EOS))

2.6 Determine data security controls and compliance requirements

Data states (e.g., in use, in transit, at rest)
Scoping and tailoring
Standards selection
Data protection methods (e.g., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB))

Domain 3:
Security Architecture and Engineering

3.1 Research, implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles

Threat modeling
Least privilege
Defense in depth
Secure defaults
Fail securely
Separation of Duties (SoD)

Keep it simple
Zero Trust
Privacy by design
Trust but verify
Shared responsibility

3.2 Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Biba, Star Model, Bell-LaPadula)

3.3 Select controls based upon systems security requirements

3.4 Understand security capabilities of Information Systems (IS) (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)

3.5 Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements

Client-based systems
Server-based systems
Database systems
Cryptographic systems
Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
Cloud-based systems (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS))
Distributed systems

Internet of Things (IoT)
Microservices
Containerization
Serverless
Embedded systems
High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems
Edge computing systems
Virtualized systems

3.6 Select and determine cryptographic solutions

Cryptographic life cycle (e.g., keys, algorithm selection)
Cryptographic methods (e.g., symmetric, asymmetric, elliptic curves, quantum)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Key management practices
Digital signatures and digital certificates
Non-repudiation
Integrity (e.g., hashing)

3.7 Understand methods of cryptanalytic attacks

Brute force
Ciphertext only
Known plaintext
Frequency analysis
Chosen ciphertext
Implementation attacks
Side-channel

Fault injection
Timing
Man-in-the-Middle (MITM)
Pass the hash
Kerberos exploitation
Ransomware

3.8 Apply security principles to site and facility design

3.9 Design site and facility security controls

Wiring closets/intermediate distribution facilities
Server rooms/data centers
Media storage facilities
Evidence storage
Restricted and work area security

Utilities and Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Environmental issues
Fire prevention, detection, and suppression
Power (e.g., redundant, backup)

4.1 Assess and implement secure design principles in network architectures

Open System Interconnection (OSI) and Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) models
Internet Protocol (IP) networking (e.g., Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), Internet Protocol (IP) v4/6)
Secure protocols
Implications of multilayer protocols
Converged protocols (e.g., Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE), Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP))
Micro-segmentation (e.g., Software Defined Networks (SDN), Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN), Encapsulation, Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN))
Wireless networks (e.g., Li-Fi, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, satellite)
Cellular networks (e.g., 4G, 5G)
Content Distribution Networks (CDN)

4.2 Secure network components

Operation of hardware (e.g., redundant power, warranty, support)
Transmission media

Network Access Control (NAC) devices
Endpoint security

4.3 Implement secure communication channels according to design

Voice
Multimedia collaboration
Remote access

Data communications
Virtualized networks
Third-party connectivity

5.1 Control physical and logical access to assets

Information
Systems
Devices

Facilities
Applications

5.2 Manage identification and authentication of people, devices, and services

Identity Management (IdM) implementation
Single/Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Accountability
Session management
Registration, proofing, and establishment of identity

Federated Identity Management (FIM)
Credential management systems
Single Sign On (SSO)
Just-In-Time (JIT)

5.3 Federated identity with a third-party service

On-premise
Cloud

Hybrid

5.4 Implement and manage authorization mechanisms

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Rule based access control
Mandatory Access Control (MAC)

Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC)
Risk based access control

5.5 Manage the identity and access provisioning lifecycle

Account access review (e.g., user, system, service)
Provisioning and deprovisioning (e.g., on /off boarding and transfers)

Role definition (e.g., people assigned to new roles)
Privilege escalation (e.g., managed service accounts, use of sudo, minimizing its use)

5.6 Implement authentication systems

OpenID Connect (OIDC)/Open Authorization (Oauth)
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Kerberos

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)/Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus (TACACS+)

6.1 Design and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies

Internal
External
Third-party

6.2 Conduct security control testing

Vulnerability assessment
Penetration testing
Log reviews
Synthetic transactions
Code review and testing

Misuse case testing
Test coverage analysis
Interface testing
Breach attack simulations
Compliance checks

6.3 Collect security process data (e.g., technical and administrative)

Account management
Management review and approval
Key performance and risk indicators
Backup verification data

Training and awareness
Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC)

6.4 Analyze test output and generate report

Remediation
Exception handling
Ethical disclosure

6.5 Conduct or facilitate security audits

Internal
External
Third-party

7.1 Understand and comply with investigations

Evidence collection and handling
Reporting and documentation
Investigative techniques

Digital forensics tools, tactics, and procedures
Artifacts (e.g., computer, network, mobile device)

7.2 Conduct logging and monitoring activities

Intrusion detection and prevention
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Continuous monitoring
Egress monitoring

Log management
Threat intelligence (e.g., threat feeds, threat hunting)
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

7.3 Perform Configuration Management (CM) (e.g., provisioning, baselining, automation)

7.4 Apply foundational security operations concepts

Need-to-know/least privilege
Separation of Duties (SoD) and responsibilities
Privileged account management

Job rotation
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

7.5 Apply resource protection

Media management
Media protection techniques

7.6 Conduct incident management

Detection
Response
Mitigation
Reporting

Recovery
Remediation
Lessons learned

7.7 Operate and maintain detective and preventative measures

Firewalls (e.g., next generation, web application, network)
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
Whitelisting/blacklisting
Third-party provided security services

Sandboxing
Honeypots/honeynets
Anti-malware
Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools

7.8 Implement and support patch and vulnerability management

7.9 Understand and participate in change management processes

7.10 Implement recovery strategies

Backup storage strategies
Recovery site strategies
Multiple processing sites

System resilience, High Availability (HA), Quality of Service (QoS), and fault tolerance

7.11 Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) processes

Response
Personnel
Communications
Assessment

Restoration
Training and awareness
Lessons learned

7.12 Test Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)

Read-through/tabletop
Walkthrough
Simulation

Parallel
Full interruption

7.13 Participate in Business Continuity (BC) planning and exercises

7.14 Implement and manage physical security

Perimeter security controls
Internal security controls

7.15 Address personnel safety and security concerns

Travel
Security training and awareness

Emergency management
Duress

8.1 Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, DevSecOps)
Maturity models (e.g., Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM))
Operation and maintenance
Change management
Integrated Product Team (IPT)

8.2 Identify and apply security controls in software development ecosystems

Programming languages
Libraries
Tool sets
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Runtime
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Software Configuration Management (SCM)
Code repositories
Application security testing (e.g., Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST))

8.3 Assess the effectiveness of software security

Auditing and logging of changes
Risk analysis and mitigation

8.4 Assess security impact of acquired software

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)
Open source
Third-party

Managed services (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS))

8.5 Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards

Security weaknesses and vulnerabilities at the source-code level
Security of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Secure coding practices
Software-defined security

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