Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Duration: 5 Days

Method: Instructor-led. Hands-on wokshops.

Price: $2995.00

Course Code: PT0325

Audience

This course is designed for security personnel that desire the CISSP credential and need to be introduced to the material that ISC² requires competency in to obtain the certification.

Description

This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to begin the process of preparing for the CISSP exam. The class will cover the ten domains specified by (ISC)² CISSP CBK

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Understand Security and Risk Management (Security, Risk, Compliance, Law, Regulations, Business Continuity)
Understand Asset Security (Protecting Security of Assets)
Understand Security Engineering (Engineering and Management of Security)
Understand Communications and Network Security (Designing and Protecting Network Security)
Identity and Access Management (Controlling Access and Managing Identity)
Understand Security Assessment and Testing (Designing, Performing, and Analyzing Security Testing)
Understand Security Operations (Foundational Concepts, Investigations, Incident Management, Disaster Recovery)
Understand Software Development Security (Understanding, Applying, and Enforcing Software Security)

Prerequisites

Students should meet the necessary minimum experience (as specified by ISC²) of five years of direct full-time security professional work experience in two or more of the ten domains of the (ISC)² CISSP CBK. Students should also be seriously committed to the time and effort required beyond this course necessary to prepare for and take the CISSP exam.

Topics

I. Security and Risk Management
- Understand and apply concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability
- Evaluate and apply security governance principles C. 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 modeling concepts and methodologies
- Apply risk-based management concepts to the supply chain
- Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program
II. 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
III. 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
IV. Communication and Network Security
- Implement secure design principles in network architectures
- Secure network components
- Implement secure communication channels according to design
V. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Control physical and logical access to assets
- Manage the 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
VI. 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
VII. 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 preventative 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 personnel safety and security concerns
VIII. 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 the security impact of acquired software
- Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards