Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

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DURATION: 5 Days

Course Overview

DAY 1

• Security and Risk Management (Security, Risk, Compliance, Law, Regulations, Business Continuity)

1. Understand and apply concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability
2. Apply security governance principles through
3. Compliance
4. Understand legal and regulatory issues pertain to information security in a global context
5. Understand professional ethics
6. Develop and implement documented security policy, standards, procedures and guidelines.
7. Understand business continuity requirements
8. Contribute to personnel security policies
9. Understand and apply risk management concepts
10. Understand and apply threat modelling
11. Integrate security risk considerations into acquisition strategy and practice
12. Establish and manage information security education, training and awareness

DAY 2

• Asset Security (Protecting Security of Assets)

1. Classify information and supporting assets (e.g. sensitivity, criticality)
2. Determine and maintain ownership (e.g., data owners, system owners, business/mission owners
3. Protect Privacy
4. Ensure appropriate retention (e.g., media, hardware, personnel)  
5. Determine data security controls (e.g., data at rest, data in transit)
6. Establish handling requirements (markings, labels, storage, destruction of sensitive information)

• Security Engineering (Engineering and Management of Security)

1. Implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
2. Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Confidentiality, integrity and multi-level models)
3. Select controls  and countermeasures based upon systems security evaluation models
4. Understand security capabilities of information systems (e.g., memory protection, virtualization, trusted platform module, interfaces, fault tolerance)
5. Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs and solution elements
6. Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in web-based systems (e.g., XML, OWASP)
7. Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in mobile systems
8. Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities in embedded devices and cyber-physical systems (e.g., network-enables devices, internet of things (IOT)
9. Apply cryptography
10. Apply secure principles to site and facility design
11.  Design and implement physical security

DAY 3

• Communications and Network Security (Designing and Protecting Network Security)

1. Apply secure design principles to network architecture (e.g., IP & non-IP protocols, segmentation
2. Secure Network components
3. Design and establish secure communication channels
4. Prevent or mitigate network attacks

• Identify and Access Management (Controlling Access and Managing Identity)

1. Control physical and logical access to assets
2. Manage identification and authentication of people and devices
3. Integrate Identity as a service (e.g, cloud identity)
4. Integrate third-party identity services (e.g., on-premise)
5. Implement and manage authorization mechanisms
6. Prevent or mitigate access control attacks
7. Manage the identity and access provisioning lifecycle (e.g., provisioning review)