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 modeling concepts and methodologies
• Apply risk-based management concepts to the supply chain
• Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program

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

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

Communication and Network Security

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

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• 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

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

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

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

Candidates must have a minimum of five years of cumulative paid work experience in two or more of the eight domains of the CISSP CBK. Earning a four-year college degree or regional equivalent or an additional credential from the (ISC)² approved list will satisfy one year of the required experience. Education credit will only satisfy one year of experience.

A candidate who doesn’t have the required experience to become a CISSP may become an Associate of (ISC)² by successfully passing the CISSP examination. The Associate of (ISC)² will then have six years to earn the five years required experience. You may satisfy one year of required experience through holding a 4 Year College Degree or Regional Equivalent or holding a credential on the (ISC)² approved list

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If you are an experienced, high-achieving information security professional, involved in designing, developing and managing the overall security posture of an organization, from cybersecurity strategy to hands-on implementation, the CISSP is the right choice for you.

The CISSP is ideal for experienced security practitioners, managers and executives interested in proving their knowledge across a wide array of security practices and principles, including those in the following positions:

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

Exam:

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Duration:

180 minutes

Questions:

Maximum of 150 multiple choice and advanced innovative questions

Skills measured:

• Security and Risk Management 15%
• Asset Security 10%
• Security Architecture and Engineering 13%
• Communication and Network Security 14%
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) 13%
• Security Assessment and Testing 12%
• Security Operations 13%
• Software Development Security 10%

It takes a fully trained team to keep your organization secure, and each organization has its own unique training and certification needs. We use proven training techniques — with a focus on real-world learning activities and scenarios — so you get the most out of training.

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