CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is a globally recognized certification offered by (ISC)² (International Information System Security Certification Consortium). It’s designed for experienced security practitioners, managers, and executives interested in proving their knowledge across a broad array of security practices and principles.

CISSP Exam Overview:

The CISSP exam evaluates a candidate’s expertise in eight domains:

1. Security and Risk Management: This covers topics like security governance, compliance, professional ethics, risk management, and security policies.
2. Asset Security: This involves information and asset classification, data handling requirements, and ensuring appropriate retention.
3. Security Architecture and Engineering: This encompasses the concepts of security models, secure system architecture and design, cryptography, and more.
4. Communication and Network Security: Here, you’ll touch on network structures, transmission methods, transport formats, and security measures to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
5. Identity and Access Management (IAM): This domain deals with concepts related to identity and access services, controls, and management.
6. Security Assessment and Testing: It involves designing, performing, and analyzing security testing and assessments.
7. Security Operations: This broad area includes understanding investigations, incident management, disaster recovery, and various operational controls.
8. Software Development Security: This domain dives into the security in software development lifecycle and application vulnerabilities.