Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP)
Course Overview
Led by (ISC)² authorized instructors, who are experts in information security. New Horizons CISSP Training is the most comprehensive review of information security concepts and industry best practices, and covers the 10 domains of the CISSP CBK (Common Body of Knowledge). This training course will help candidates review and refresh their information security knowledge and help identify areas they need to study for the CISSP exam.
Several types of activities are used throughout the course to reinforce topics and increase knowledge retention. These activities include open ended questions from the instructor to the students, matching and poll questions, group activities, open/closed questions, and group discussions. This interactive learning technique is based on sound adult learning theories.
Who Should Attend
The course is intended for students who have at least four years of recent full-time security professional work experience in two or more of the ten domains of the (ISC)² Certified
Information System Security Professional (CISSP) Common Body of Knowledge
(CBK), including experience with the architecture, design, management, risk, and controls that assure the security of business environments? The course builds on and brings together the holistic view of the topics covered in the everyday environment of an information systems security professional. Professional experience including the following will greatly enhance the learning environment.
- Work requiring special education or intellectual attainment, usually including a liberal education or college degree
- Work requiring habitual memory of a body of knowledge shared by others doing similar work
- Management/supervision of projects and/or employees
- Work requiring the exercise of judgment, management decision-making, and discretion
- Work requiring the exercise of ethical judgment (as opposed to ethical behaviour)
- Professional writing and oral communication (e.g., presentation)
- Research and development
- The specification and selection of controls and mechanisms
- Applicable job title examples include: CISO, director, manager, supervisor, analyst, cryptographer, cyber architect, information assurance engineer, instructor, professor, lecturer, investigator, computer scientist, program manager, and lead
Prerequisite(s) or equivalent knowledge:
CompTIA Network+ Certification (Exam N10-005)
CompTIA Security+ Certification (2011 Objectives)
Course Objectives
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify key purposes, benefits, and processes of information classification and how it is used to determine access control policies and identify the process for assessing the effectiveness of implemented controls
- Understand the basics of telecommunication and network security concepts, required components for minimizing security risks, securing channels of communication, and
techniques for preventing and detecting network-based attacks
- Define and apply information security governance and Risk Management Framework including the policies, concepts, principles, structures and standards that are established for the protection of information assets and how to assess the effectiveness of that protection
- Explain the details of software development security, including the activities and processes pertaining to the planning, programming, and management of software and systems that manage software, including ways to secure applications through design and
control interfaces and assess the usefulness of their application security
- Identify the concepts within cryptography, including the terms and application of public and private algorithms, distribution management, methods of attack, and the application, development, and use of digital signatures for authenticity, electronic transactions, and non-repudiation processes
- Identify security architecture and design concepts, focusing on the architecture of security systems that provide for the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of organizational assets as well as the concepts, principles, structures, frameworks, and standards used in the design and implementation of security requirements of individual components and enterprise-wide systems
- Identify the key terms and processes of security operations and how to protect and control information processing assets in a centralized or distributed environment
- Identify and apply the business continuity and disaster recovery planning requirements necessary to ensure the preservation of the business in case of major disruptions to normal business operations, including the project scope, planning and how to conduct a business impact analysis, identify recovery strategies, develop the recovery plan, and implement it
- Define and explain the legal, regulations, investigations, and compliance concepts of internationally accepted methods, processes, and procedures used in computer crime legislation; regulations specific to the investigative measures and techniques used to identify the occurrence of an incidence; and the gathering, analysis, and management of evidence
- Define and apply the requirements necessary for the overall physical (environmental) security processes for the evaluation of physical, environmental, and procedural risks that might be present in a facility, organization, or structure where information systems are stored and managed
