The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is the most globally recognized certification in the information security market. CISSP validates 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. 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
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 ethics
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 Architecture and 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 (TPM), 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: Communication and Network Security
Apply secure design principles in network architectures
Secure network components
Design and establish secure communication channels
Prevent or . mitigate network attacks
Domain 5: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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 resource protection techniques
Conduct incident management
Operate and maintain detective and preventative 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
Perimeter security controls Internal security controls
Address personnel safety and security concerns
Domain 8: Software Development Security
Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Development methodologies
Operation and maintenance
Identify and apply security controls in development environments
Security of the software environments
Configuration management as an aspect of secure coding
Security of code repositories
Assess the effectiveness of software security
Auditing and logging of changes
Risk analysis and mitigation
Assess security impact of acquired software
Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards
