This 5-day course will prepare for the CISSP exam Certified Information Systems Security Professional, covering the entire CBK (Common Body of Knowledge) as defined by (ISC)2. The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is the most globally recognized certification in the information security market. CISSP validated an information security professional’s deep technical and managerial knowledge and experience to effectively design, engineer, and manage the overall security posture of an organization
(CISSP) Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Who should attend this course?
Security (Consultant, Manager, Auditor, Architect, Analyst, System Engineer), IT Director/Manager, CISO, Director of Security, Network Architect
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the Information System is recommended. Strong English is necessary because the documentation is in English
The broad spectrum of topics included in the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) ensure its relevancy across all disciplines in the field of information security. Successful candidates are competent in the following 8 domains:
- 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
This training provides a comprehensive review of information security concepts and industry best practices, covering the 8 domains of CISSP CBK (Common Body of Knowledge).
Several types of activities are used throughout the course to reinforce topics and increase knowledge retention. These activities include open ended questions from the instructor to the students, matching and poll questions, group activities, open/closed questions, and group discussions. the interactive learning technique is based on sound adult learning theories.
This training course will help candidates review and refresh their information security knowledge and help identify areas they need to study for the CISSP exam and features
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 ethic
- 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
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 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, 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: COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORK SECURITY
- Implement secure design principle 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 resources 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 personnel 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
PREPARATION TO THE EXAM
The online CISSP exam (CAT: computerized adaptive testing) is available for all the exams in English. In the other languages, the exam is linearly managed.
You will have more information on the online exam on the link below:
https://www.isc2.org/certifications/CISSP/CISSP-CAT
- Duration of the exam: 3 hours
- Number of questions: 100 – 150
- Types of questions : Multiple Choice and Innovative Advanced questions
- Pass Mark: 700 out of1000 points
- Available Language: English
- Exam Center: PPC and PVTC, Pearson View Authorized Testing Centers (ISC)2
The linear CISSP exam:
- Duration of the exam: 6 hours
- Number of questions: 250
- Types of questions: Multiple Choice and Innovative Advanced questions
- Pass Mark: 700 out of 1000 points
- Available Language: French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean
- Exam Center: PPC and PVTC, Pearson View Authorized Testing Centers (ISC)2