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Certified Information Systems Security Professional
ISC2 / CISSPBuild the skills for your next mission.
CISSP is the gold standard certification for experienced security leaders.
Course objectives
Build practical skills across the key domains covered in Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Security and Risk ManagementUnderstand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
- Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
- Understand and apply security concepts
- Evaluate and apply security governance principles
- Determine compliance and other requirements
- Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security
- Understand requirements for investigation types
- 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 Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) concepts
- Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program
Asset SecurityIdentify and classify information and assets
- Identify and classify information and assets
- Establish information and asset handling requirements
- Provision resources securely
- Manage data lifecycle
- Ensure appropriate asset retention
- Determine data security controls and compliance requirements
Security Architecture and EngineeringResearch, implement, and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
- Research, 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 (IS)
- Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
- Select and determine cryptographic solutions
- Understand methods of cryptanalytic attacks
- Apply security principles to site and facility design
- Design site and facility security controls
Communication and Network SecurityAssess and implement secure design principles in network architectures
- Assess and implement secure design principles in network architectures
- Secure network components
- Implement secure communication channels according to design
Identity and Access Management (IAM)Control physical and logical access to assets
- Control physical and logical access to assets
- Manage identification and authentication of people, devices, and services
- Federated identity with a third-party service
- Implement and manage authorization mechanisms
- Manage the identity and access provisioning lifecycle
- Implement authentication systems
Security Assessment and TestingDesign and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies
- Design and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies
- Conduct security control testing
- Collect security process data
- Analyze test output and generate report
- Conduct or facilitate security audits
Security OperationsUnderstand and comply with investigations
- Understand and comply with investigations
- Conduct logging and monitoring activities
- Perform Configuration Management (CM)
- Apply foundational security operations concepts
- Apply resource protection
- 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
- Address personnel safety and security concerns
Software Development SecurityUnderstand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Identify and apply security controls in software development ecosystems
- Assess the effectiveness of software security
- Assess security impact of acquired software
- Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards
Find your DoD 8140 pathway
Explore how this training may align to DoD 8140 work roles and proficiency levels.
Verify mapping against the current official matrix.View authoritative source V2.1 · 2025-09-19
About this course
CISSP is the gold standard certification for experienced security leaders. It validates deep technical and managerial knowledge to effectively design, engineer, and manage the overall security posture of an organization.
Training alone does not establish DoD 8140 qualification. Confirm position-specific requirements with your organization.