CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional

The Official ISC2® Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) training provides a comprehensive review of the knowledge required to effectively design, engineer and manage the overall security posture of an organisation. This training course will help students review and refresh their knowledge and identify areas they need to study for the CISSP exam. Content aligns with and comprehensively covers the eight domains of the ISC2® CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®), ensuring relevancy across all disciplines in the field of cybersecurity.

As an ISC2® Official Training Provider, we use courseware developed by ISC2® –creator of the CISSP CBK– to ensure your training is relevant and up-to-date. Our instructors are verified security experts who hold the CISSP and have completed intensive training to teach ISC2® content.

This course content is updated and aligned with the CISSP exam that was refreshed on 15 April 2024.

Audience

This training course is intended for professionals who have at least five years of cumulative, paid work experience in two or more of the eight domains of the ISC2® CISSP CBK and are pursuing CISSP training and certification to acquire the credibility and mobility to advance within their current information security careers.

Individuals may be currently in roles such as:
Security Consultant, Security Manager, IT Director/Manager, Security Auditor, Security Architect, Security Analyst, Security Systems Engineer, Chief Information Security Officer, Security Director, Network Architect.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Understand and apply fundamental concepts and methods related to the fields of information technology and security
• Align overall organizational operational goals with security functions and implementations.
• Understand how to protect assets of the organization as they go through their lifecycle.
• Understand the concepts, principles, structures and standards used to design, implement, monitor and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, applications and those controls used to enforce various levels of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Implement system security through the application of security design principles and application of appropriate security control mitigations for vulnerabilities present in common information system types and architectures.
• Understand the importance of cryptography and the security services it can provide in today’s digital and information age.
• Understand the impact of physical security elements on information system security and apply secure design principles to evaluate or recommend appropriate physical security protections.
• Understand the elements that comprise communication and network security coupled with a thorough description of how the communication and network systems function.
• List the concepts and architecture that define the associated technology and implementation systems and protocols at Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model layers 1-7.
• Identify standard terms for applying physical and logical access controls to environments related to their security practice.
• Appraise various access control models to meet business security requirements.
• Name primary methods for designing and validating test and audit strategies that support business requirements.
• Enhance and optimize an organization’s operational function and capacity by applying and utilizing appropriate security controls and countermeasures.
• Recognize risks to an organization’s operational endeavours and assess specific threats, vulnerabilities and controls.
• Understand the System Lifecycle (SLC) and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and how to apply security to it; identify which security control(s) are appropriate for the development environment; and assess the effectiveness of software security.

Course Outline

Domain 1: Security and Risk Management
Domain 2: Asset Security
Domain 3: Security Architecture and Engineering
Domain 4: Communication and Network Security
Domain 5: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Domain 6: Security Assessment and Testing
Domain 7: Security Operations
Domain 8: Software Development Security

Certification

This course is recommended as preparation for the following exam:
ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional

IMPORTANT! 
The CISSP exam is not included in the CISSP training, but you may book and take the exam at Glasspaper`s test center in Oslo. The cost for the CISSP exam is EUR 665 + mva.
If you book the test directly with Glasspaper, we will add an administration fee of NOK 750. 

About the CISSP certification process

Gaining this accreditation is not just about passing the exam, there are a number of other criteria that need to be met including 5 years of cumulative, paid work experience in two or more of the eight domains of the ISC2® CISSP CBK.

CISSP certification process:

• Prepare for the CISSP exam
• Register for the CISSP exam
• Get your endorsement
• Commit to ISC2 code of ethics
• Pay maintenance fee

Full details can be found at CISSP certification 

Those without the required experience can take the exam to become an Associate of ISC2 while working towards the experience needed for full certification.

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