Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification
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Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification is one of the most demanded certification in information security. It is an independent information security certification governed by the reputed International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2
CISSP Exam Eligibility Criteria
- Minimum five years of direct full-time security professional work experience in two or more of the ten domains of the information systems, OR
- Four years of direct full-time professional security work experience in two or more of the ten domains of the CISSP CBK with a college degree, OR
- If you don't have experience, then become an Associate of (ISC) by successfully passing the CISSP exam and earn six years of experience to become a CISSP
- Access Control
- Telecommunications and Network Security
- Information Security Governance and Risk Management
- Software Development Security
- Cryptography
- Security Architecture and Design
- Operations Security
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Legal, Regulations, Investigations and Compliance
- Physical Security
CISSP Syllabus The CISSP domains are drawn from various information security topics within the (ISC) CBK. The CISSP CBK consists of the following 8 domains:
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability concepts
- Security governance principles
- Compliance
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Professional ethic
- Security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines
- Information and asset classification
- Ownership (e.g. data owners, system owners)
- Protect privacy
- Appropriate retention
- Data security controls
- Handling requirements (e.g. markings, labels, storage)
- Engineering processes using secure design principles
- Security models fundamental concepts
- Security evaluation models
- Security capabilities of information systems
- Security architectures, designs, and solution elements vulnerabilities
- Web-based systems vulnerabilities
- Mobile systems vulnerabilities
- Embedded devices and cyber-physical systems vulnerabilities
- Cryptography
- Site and facility design secure principles
- Physical security
- Secure network architecture design (e.g. IP & non-IP protocols, segmentation)
- Secure network components
- Secure communication channels
- Network attacks
- Physical and logical assets control
- Identification and authentication of people and devices
- Identity as a service (e.g. cloud identity)
- Third-party identity services (e.g. on-premise)
- Access control attacks
- Identity and access provisioning lifecycle (e.g. provisioning review)
- Assessment and test strategies
- Security process data (e.g. management and operational controls)
- Security control testing
- Test outputs (e.g. automated, manual)
- Security architectures vulnerabilities
- Investigations support and requirements
- Logging and monitoring activities
- Provisioning of resources
- Foundational security operations concepts
- Resource protection techniques
- Incident management
- Preventative measures
- Patch and vulnerability management
- Change management processes
- Recovery strategies
- Disaster recovery processes and plans
- Business continuity planning and exercises
- Physical security
- Personnel safety concerns
- Security in the software development lifecycle
- Development environment security controls
- Software security effectiveness
- Acquired software security impact