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 ethic
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 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, 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: Communications and Network Security
Implement secure design principle in network architectures
Secure network components
Implement secure communication channels according to design
Domain 5: Identity and Access Management
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 resources protection techniques
Conduct incident management
Operate and maintain detective and preventive 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
Domain 8: Software Development Security
Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Identify and apply security controls in development environments
Assess the effectiveness of software security
Assess security impact of acquired software
Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards
Preparation to the Exam
The online CISSP exam (CAT: computerized adaptive testing) is available for all the exams in English. In the other languages, the exam is linearly managed.
You will have more information on the online exam on the link below:
https://www.isc2.org/certifications/CISSP/CISSP-CAT
Duration of the exam: 3 hours
Number of questions: 100 – 150
Types of questions: Multiple Choice and Innovative Advanced questions
Pass Mark: 700 out of1000 points
Available Language: English
Exam Center: PPC and PVTC, Pearson View Authorized Testing Centers (ISC)2
The linear CISSP exam:
Duration of the exam: 6 hours
Number of questions: 250
Types of questions: Multiple Choice and Innovative Advanced questions
Pass Mark: 700 out of 1000 points
Available Language: French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean
Exam Center: PPC and PVTC, Pearson View Authorized Testing Centers (ISC)2