Certified Information Systems Security Professional Training

Topic Covered:

1.1 Understand and apply concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability

1.2 Apply security governance principles through:

• Alignment of security function to strategy, goals, mission, and objectives (e.g., business case, budget and resources)
• Organizational processes (e.g., acquisitions, divestitures, governance committees)
• Security roles and responsibilities
• Control frameworks
• Due care
• Due diligence

1.3 Compliance

• Legislative and regulatory compliance
• Privacy requirements compliance

1.4 Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security in a global context

• Computer crimes
• Trans-border data flow
• Licensing and intellectual property (e.g., copyright, trademark, digital-rights management)
• Privacy
• Import/export controls
• Data breaches

1.5 Understand professional ethics

• Exercise (ISC)² Code of Professional Ethics
• Support organization’s code of ethics

1.6 Develop and implement documented security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines

1.7 Understand business continuity requirements

• Develop and document project scope and plan
• Conduct business impact analysis

1.8 Contribute to personnel security policies

• Employment candidate screening (e.g., reference checks, education verification)
• Vendor, consultant, and contractor controls
• Employment agreements and policies
• Compliance
• Employment termination processes
• Privacy

1.9 Understand and apply risk management concepts

• Identify threats and vulnerabilities
• Control assessment
• Risk assessment/analysis (qualitative, quantitative, hybrid)
• Monitoring and measurement
• Risk assignment/acceptance (e.g., system authorization)
• Reporting
• Countermeasure selection
• Continuous improvement
• Implementation
• Risk frameworks
• Types of controls (preventive, detective, corrective, etc.)

1.10 Understand and apply threat modeling

• Identifying threats (e.g., adversaries, contractors, employees, trusted partners)
• Performing reduction analysis
• Determining and diagramming potential attacks (e.g., social engineering, spoofing)
• Technologies and processes to remediate threats (e.g., software architecture and operations)

1.11 Integrate security risk considerations into acquisition strategy and practice

• Hardware, software, and services
• Minimum security requirements
• Third-party assessment and monitoring (e.g., onsite assessment, document exchange and review, process/policy review)
• Service-level requirements

1.12 Establish and manage information security education, training, and awareness

• Appropriate levels of awareness, training, and education required within organization
• Periodic reviews for content relevancy

Topic Covered:

2.1 Classify information and supporting assets (e.g., sensitivity, criticality)

2.2 Determine and maintain ownership (e.g., data owners, system owners, business/mission owners)

2.3 Protect privacy

• Data owners
• Data remanence
• Data processers
• Collection limitation

2.4 Ensure appropriate retention (e.g., media, hardware, personnel)

2.5 Determine data security controls (e.g., data at rest, data in transit)

• Baselines
• Standards selection
• Scoping and tailoring
• Cryptography

2.6 Establish handling requirements (markings, labels, storage, destruction of sensitive information)

Topic Covered:

3.1 Implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles

3.2 Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Confidentiality, Integrity, and Multi-level Models)

3.3 Select controls and countermeasures based upon systems security evaluation models

3.4 Understand security capabilities of information systems (e.g., memory protection, virtualization, trusted platform module, interfaces, fault tolerance)

3.5 Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements

• Client-based (e.g., applets, local caches)
• Distributed systems (e.g., cloud computing, grid computing, peer to peer)
• Server-based (e.g., data flow control)
• Database security (e.g., inference, aggregation, data mining, data analytics, warehousing)
• Cryptographic systems
• Industrial control systems (e.g., SCADA)
• Large-scale parallel data systems

3.6 Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in web-based systems (e.g., XML, OWASP)

3.7 Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in mobile systems

3.8 Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in embedded devices and cyber-physical systems (e.g., network-enabled devices, Internet of things (loT))

3.9 Apply cryptography

• Cryptographic life cycle (e.g., cryptographic limitations, algorithm/protocol governance)
• Digital signatures
• Cryptographic types (e.g., symmetric, asymmetric, elliptic curves)
• Digital rights management
• Non-repudiation
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Integrity (hashing and salting)
• Key management practices
• Methods of cryptanalytic attacks (e.g., brute force, cipher-text only, known plaintext)

3.10 Apply secure principles to site and facility design

3.11 Design and implement physical security

Topic Covered:

4.1 Apply secure design principles to network architecture (e.g., IP & non-IP protocols, segmentation)

• OSI and TCP/IP models
• Software-defined networks
• IP networking
• Wireless networks
• Implications of multilayer protocols (e.g., DNP3)
• Cryptography used to maintain communication security
• Converged protocols (e.g., FCoE, MPLS, VoIP, iSCSI)

4.2 Secure network components

• Operation of hardware (e.g., modems, switches, routers, wireless access points, mobile devices)
• Endpoint security
• Transmission media (e.g., wired, wireless, fiber)
• Content-distribution networks
• Network access control devices (e.g., firewalls, proxies)
• Physical devices

4.3 Design and establish secure communication channels

• Voice
• Data communications (e.g., VLAN, TLS/SSL)
• Multimedia collaboration (e.g., remote meeting technology, instant messaging)
• Virtualized networks (e.g., SDN, virtual SAN, guest operating systems, port isolation)
• Remote access (e.g., VPN, screen scraper, virtual application/desktop, telecommuting)

4.4 Prevent or mitigate network attacks

• Exercise (ISC)² Code of Professional Ethics
• Support organization’s code of ethics

1.6 Develop and implement documented security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines

1.7 Understand business continuity requirements

• Develop and document project scope and plan
• Conduct business impact analysis

1.8 Contribute to personnel security policies

• Employment candidate screening (e.g., reference checks, education verification)
• Vendor, consultant, and contractor controls
• Employment agreements and policies
• Compliance
• Employment termination processes
• Privacy

1.9 Understand and apply risk management concepts

• Identify threats and vulnerabilities
• Control assessment
• Risk assessment/analysis (qualitative, quantitative, hybrid)
• Monitoring and measurement
• Risk assignment/acceptance (e.g., system authorization)
• Reporting
• Countermeasure selection
• Continuous improvement
• Implementation
• Risk frameworks
• Types of controls (preventive, detective, corrective, etc.)

1.10 Understand and apply threat modeling

• Identifying threats (e.g., adversaries, contractors, employees, trusted partners)
• Performing reduction analysis
• Determining and diagramming potential attacks (e.g., social engineering, spoofing)
• Technologies and processes to remediate threats (e.g., software architecture and operations)

1.11 Integrate security risk considerations into acquisition strategy and practice

• Hardware, software, and services
• Minimum security requirements
• Third-party assessment and monitoring (e.g., onsite assessment, document exchange and review, process/policy review)
• Service-level requirements

1.12 Establish and manage information security education, training, and awareness

• Appropriate levels of awareness, training, and education required within organization
• Periodic reviews for content relevancy

Topic Covered:

5.1 Control physical and logical access to assets

• Information
• Systems
• Devices
• Facilities

5.2 Manage identification and authentication of people and devices

• Identity management implementation (e.g., SSO, LDAP)
• Session management (e.g., timeouts, screensavers)
• Single/multi-factor authentication (e.g., factors, strength, errors)
• Registration and proofing of identity
• Accountability
• Federated identity management (e.g., SAML)
• Credential management systems

5.3 Integrate identity as a service (e.g., cloud identity)

5.4 Integrate third-party identity services (e.g., on-premise)

5.5 Implement and manage authorization mechanisms

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) methods
• Rule-based access control methods
• Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
• Discretionary Access Control (DAC)

5.6 Prevent or mitigate access control attacks

5.7 Manage the identity and access provisioning life cycle (e.g., provisioning, review)

Topic Covered:

6.1 Design and validate assessment and test strategies

6.2 Conduct security control testing

• Vulnerability assessment
• Misuse case testing
• Penetration testing
• Test coverage analysis
• Log reviews
• Interface testing (e.g., API, UI, physical)
• Synthetic transactions
• Code review and testing (e.g., manual, dynamic, static, fuzz)

6.3 Collect security process data (e.g., management and operational controls)

• Account management (e.g., escalation, revocation)
• Backup verification data
• Management review
• Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Key performance and risk indicators

6.4 Analyze and report test outputs (e.g., automated, manual)

6.5 Conduct or facilitate internal and third party audits

Topic Covered:

7.1 Understand and support investigations

• Evidence collection and handling (e.g., chain of custody, interviewing)
• Investigative techniques (e.g., root-cause analysis, incident handling)
• Reporting and documenting
• Digital forensics (e.g., media, network, software and embedded devices)

7.2 Understand requirements for investigation types

• Operational
• Regulatory
• Criminal
• Electronic discovery (eDiscovery)
• Civil

7.3 Conduct logging and monitoring activities

• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Egress monitoring (e.g., data loss prevention, steganography, watermarking)
• Security information and event management
• Continuous monitoring

7.4 Secure the provisioning of resources

• Asset inventory (e.g., hardware, software)
• Cloud assets (e.g., services, VMs, storage, networks)
• Configuration management
• Physical assets
• Applications (e.g., workloads or private clouds, web services, software as a service)
• Virtual assets (e.g., software-defined network, virtual SAN, guest operating systems)

7.5 Understand and apply foundational security operations concepts

• Need-to-know/least privilege (e.g., entitlement, aggregation, transitive trust)
• Job rotation
• Separation of duties and responsibilities
• Information lifecycle
• Monitor special privileges (e.g., operators, administrators)
• Service-level agreements

7.6 Employ resource protection techniques

• Media management
• Hardware and software asset management

7.7 Conduct incident management

• Detection
• Recovery
• Response
• Remediation
• Mitigation
• Lessons learned
• Reporting

7.8 Operate and maintain preventative measures

• Firewalls
• Sandboxing
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Honeypots/Honeynets
• Whitelisting/Blacklisting
• Anti-malware
• Third-party security services

7.9 Implement and support patch and vulnerability management

7.10 Participate in and understand change management processes (e.g., versioning, baselining, security impact analysis)

7.11 Implement recovery strategies

• Backup storage strategies (e.g., offsite storage, electronic vaulting, tape rotation)
• Multiple processing sites (e.g., operationally redundant systems)
• Recovery site strategies
• System resilience, high availability, quality of service, and fault tolerance

7.12 Implement disaster recovery processes

• Response
• Assessment
• Personnel
• Restoration
• Communications
• Training and awareness

7.13 Test disaster recovery plans

• Read-through
• Parallel
• Walkthrough
• Full interruption
• Simulation

7.14 Participate in business continuity planning and exercises

7.15 Implement and manage physical security

• Perimeter (e.g., access control and monitoring)
• Internal security (e.g., escort requirements/visitor control, keys and locks)

7.16 Participate in addressing personnel safety concerns (e.g., duress, travel, monitoring)

Topic Covered:

8.1 Understand and apply security in the software development lifecycle

• Development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Organizational processes (e.g., acquisitions, divestitures, governance committees)
• Operation and maintenance
• Maturity models
• Change management
• Integrated product team (e.g., DevOps)

8.2 Enforce security controls in development environments

• Security of the software environments
• Configuration management as an aspect of secure coding
• Security weaknesses and vulnerabilities at the source-code level (e.g., buffer overflow, escalation of privilege, input/output validation)
• Security of code repositories
• Security of application programming interfaces

8.3 Assess the effectiveness of software security

• Auditing and logging of changes
• Risk analysis and mitigation
• Acceptance testing

8.4 Assess security impact of acquired software