Overview

CISSP Certification was designed to recognize mastery of an International standard for information security and Understanding of a Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). 

Certification can enhanced a professional’s career and Provide added credibility of being a good network administrator, programmer, or engineer.

Why become a CISSP?

Security is a hot issue in not only the security and technology filed, but also in any organization that has computers hooked up to a network. Corporations are in a desperate search for security professionals to help them protect the resources that keep their companies alive and competitive. This certification identifies you as a security professionals who has met a predefined standard of knowledge of the current security technologies. 

More reasons to achieve the CISSP certification

- Meet a growing demand and thrive in an exploding field. 
- Expand your current knowledge of security concepts and practices. 
- Bring security expertise to your current occupation
- Become more marketable in this competitive workforce
- Show a dedication to the security discipline
- Increase salaries and different employment opportunities

The following topics are presented:

• Security Management Practices - Security management entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation, and implementation of policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines. Tools such as data classification and risk assessment/analysis are used to identify threats, classify assets, and to rate system vulnerabilities so that effective controls can be implemented.

• Security Architecture and Models - The Security Architecture and Models domain contains the concepts, principles, structures, and standards used to design, monitor, and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, applications and those controls used to enforce various levels of availability, integrity, and confidentiality.

• Access Control Systems and Methodology - Access controls are a collection of mechanisms that work together to create a security architecture to protect the assets of the information system.

• Application Development Security - This domain addresses the important security concepts that apply to application software development. It outlines the environment where software is designed and developed and explains the critical role software plays in providing information system security.

• Operations Security - Operations Security is used to identify the controls over hardware, media, and the operators and administrators with access privileges to any of these resources. Audit and monitoring are the mechanisms, tools, and facilities that permit the identification of security events and subsequent actions to identify the key elements and report the pertinent information to the appropriate individual, group, or process.

• Physical Security - The physical security domain provides protection techniques for the entire facility, from the outside perimeter to the inside office space, including all of the information system resources.

• Cryptography - The cryptography domain addresses the principles, means, and methods of disguising information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and authenticity.

• Telecommunications, Network, and Internet Security - The telecommunications, network, and Internet security domain discusses the Network Structures, Transmission methods, Security measures used to provide availability, integrity, and confidentiality. Authentication for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media is also explained.

• Business Continuity Planning - The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) domain addresses the preservation and recovery of business operations in the event of outages.

• Law, Investigations, and Ethics - The Law, Investigations, and Ethics domain addresse will address computer crime laws and regulations and the measures and technologies used to investigate computer crime incidents.

Prerequisite

Have a minimum five years of direct full-time security professional work experience in two or more of the ten domains of the information systems security.
Field Experience

CISSP
40 Hours

Course: NS501
 

 Course Outline

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