Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Course Overview

SPECIAL NOTICE
The CISSP course is not delivered as a boot camp or exam prep course. Our course is a ‘theory based’ guide through the eight ISC2 domains to support your learning of the ISC2 Book of Knowledge. This course should be taken many months in advance of your CISSP exam booking. It will not substitute the considerable amount of self-study that all CISSP delegates need to undertake. This course attracts mixed ability delegates and is always tailored to meet the needs of all participants.
Aimed at security professionals, this course surveys the entire information security landscape and the technologies involved. The course addresses the eight knowledge domains that comprise the common body of knowledge (CBK) for information systems security professionals and will help delegates prepare for CISSP certification.
The course offers a theory based approach to the security process, with opportunities to discuss the immediate application of concepts and techniques described in the CBK to the real world. It can be considered as providing a good introduction to security management, architecture and engineering.
The course comprises of eight sessions that map directly to the (CBK), each one is theory based with instructor led discussions; there are no hands on labs.

Prerequisites

• • We recommend that work completed in the classroom is complemented by extra reading to ensure success in the exam. The amount of extra reading required will depend on the amount of experience the delegate has. The 'mile wide, inch deep' description indicates the challenge to most delegates, not all will have 'hands on' experience spanning all 8 domains of the CBK.
  • We will provide a CISSP guide book as pre-reading. It is expected that delegates review the guide and gain an appreciation of the key concepts in each of the eight CISSP domains in advance of the course. However, we do not expect delegates to be familiar with all the details of the guide book in advance of the course itself.
  • We recommend delegates have some knowledge of all CBK domains and are encouraged to read one or two of the books on the Reading List at ISC2.org.
  • Delegates should have experience in at least two of the domains in the (CBK), for 5 years or more (4 years if they have achieved relevant industry or degree level certifications) to achieve full certification. Associate status can be achieved without the full 4/5 years experience; full certification will be assigned when the correct amount of experience is obtained.

Course Content

• Security and Risk Management

  Understand and apply concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability
  Apply security governance principles
  Compliance
  Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security in a global context
  Understand professional ethics
  Develop and implement documented security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
  Understand business continuity requirements
  Contribute to personnel security policies
  Understand and apply risk management concepts
  Understand and apply threat modelling
  Integrate security risk considerations into acquisition strategy and practice
  Establish and manage information security education, training, and awareness

• Asset Security

  Classify information and supporting assets
  Determine and maintain ownership
  Protect privacy
  Ensure appropriate retention
  Determine data security controls
  Establish handling requirements

• Security Engineering

  Implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
  Understand the fundamental concepts of security models
  Select controls and countermeasures based upon systems security evaluation models
  Understand security capabilities of information systems
  Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
  Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities in web-based systems
  Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in mobile systems
  Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in embedded devices and cyber-physical systems
  Apply cryptography
  Apply secure principles to site and facility design
  Design and implement physical security

• Communication & Network Security

  Apply secure design principles to network architecture
  Secure network components
  Design and establish secure communication channels
  Prevent or mitigate network attacks

• Identity & Access Management

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

• Security Assessment & Testing

  Design and validate assessment and test strategies
  Conduct security control testing
  Collect security process data
  Analyse and report test outputs
  Understand the vulnerabilities of security architectures

• Security Operations

  Understand and support investigations
  Understand requirements for investigation types
  Conduct logging and monitoring activities
  Secure the provisioning of resources
  Understand and apply foundational security operations concepts
  Employ resource protection techniques
  Conduct incident management
  Operate and maintain preventative measures

• Software Security Development

  Understand and apply security in the software development lifecycle
  Enforce security controls in development environments
  Assess the effectiveness of software security
  Assess security impact of acquired software
  

• CISSP and CBK are registered certification marks of (ISC)2, Inc.

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises