Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Course Code: 2510

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Overview

A CISSP certification helps a professional increase their visibility and credibility in the cybersecurity market. The program covers neutral skills that can be applied to a wide range of methodologies and technologies. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is proficient in designing, implementing, and managing a world-class state-of-the-art cybersecurity program effectively. This certification validates your expertise, standing as a proof of your skills; helping you advance your career.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days

What You'll learn

Learn and apply the concepts of security and risk management
Understand security engineering to protect information by exploring and examining security models and frameworks
Learn to identify, categorize, and prioritize assets
Examine and secure network architecture and its components
Learn to identify and control access to protect assets
Design and conduct security assessment strategies, logging, and monitoring activities
Develop a recovery strategy and maintain operational resilience
Learn to secure the software development cycle

Outline

Domain 1: Security and Risk Management

Understand and apply concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability
Evaluate and apply security governance principles
Determine compliance requirements
Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security in a global context
Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
Identify, analyze, and prioritize Business Continuity (BC) requirements
Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures
Understand and apply risk management concepts
Understand and apply threat modelling concepts and methodologies
Apply risk-based management concepts to the supply chain
Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program

Domain 2: Asset Security

Identify and classify information and assets
Determine and maintain information and asset ownership
Protect privacy
Ensure appropriate asset retention
Determine data security controls
Establish information and asset handling requirements

Domain 3: Security Architecture and Engineering

Implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
Understand the fundamental concepts of security models
Select controls based upon systems security requirements
Understand security capabilities of information systems (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)
Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in web-based systems
Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in mobile systems
Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in embedded devices
Apply cryptography
Apply security principles to site and facility design
Implement site and facility security controls

Domain 4: Communication and Network Security

Implement secure design principles in network architectures
Secure network components
Implement secure communication channels according to design

Domain 5: Identity and Access Management

Control physical and logical access to assets
Manage identification and authentication of people, devices, and services
Integrate identity as a third-party service
Implement and manage authorization mechanisms
Manage the identity and access provisioning lifecycle

Domain 6: Security Assessment and Testing

Design and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies
Conduct security control testing
Collect security process data (e.g., technical and administrative)
Analyze test output and generate report
Conduct or facilitate security audits

Domain 7: Security Operations

Understand and support investigations
Understand requirements for investigation types
Conduct logging and monitoring activities
Securely provisioning resources
Understand and apply foundational security operations concepts
Apply resource protection techniques
Conduct incident management
Operate and maintain detective and preventive measures
Implement and support patch and vulnerability management
Understand and participate in change management processes
Implement recovery strategies
Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) processes
Test Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)
Participate in Business Continuity (BC) planning and exercises
Implement and manage physical security
Address personal safety and security concerns

Domain 8: Software Development Security

Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Identify and apply security controls in development environments
Assess the effectiveness of software security
Assess security impact of acquired software
Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards

Prerequisites

To pursue a CISSP certification, candidates must have a minimum of 5 years cumulative work experience in 2 or more of the following eight domains:

Security and risk management
Asset security
Security architecture and engineering
Identity and access management
Communication and network security
Security assessment and testing
Security operations
Software development security

Earning a 4 year college degree or regional equivalent or an additional credential from the (ISC)²approved list will satisfy one year of the required experience.

If one doesn’t have the required experience to be eligible for the certification, they could become an associate of (ISC)² by clearing the CISSP examination. This will give those 6 years to earn the required 5 years of experience.

Who Should Attend

The CISSP training and certificate is highly recommended for:

Chief Information Officer
Chief Information Security Officer
Director of Security
IT Director/Manager
Network Architect
Security Analyst/Consultant/Manager/Auditor
Security Systems Engineer

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Certification

The CISSP exam evaluates expertise across eight security domains. These domains along with their weightages in the exams are as below –

Domain	Weightage
Security and risk management	15%
Asset security	10%
Security architecture and engineering	13%
Communication and network security	14%
Identity and access management	13%
Security assessment and testing	12%
Security operations	13%
Software development security	10%

Clearing the CISSP examination conducted by (ISC)2 proves that the participant now has the advanced knowledge and technical skills to effectively design, implement and manage a best-in-class security program.

The CISSP examination is available in the following languages –

English
French
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Korean
Visually impaired

All English CISSP exams worldwide use the Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) exam, while non-English CISSP exams would be administered as a linear, fixed-form exam.

The details for the CISSP CAT exam are as below –

Length of the examination	3 hours
Number of questions	100-150
Format of the questions	Multiple choice questions and advanced innovative questions
Passing grade	700 out of 1000 points
Exam language availability	English

The details for the CISSP linear, fixed-form exam are as below –

Length of the examination	6 hours
Number of questions	250
Format of the questions	Multiple choice questions and advanced innovative questions
Passing grade	700 out of 1000 points
Exam language availability	French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean