CISSP Cert Prep: 2 Asset Security

This course provides a primary resource for anybody preparing for the brand new CISSP (2024) exam from ISC2.

Introduction

• Earning your CISSP
• What you should know
• Study resources

1. The CISSP Exam

• The CISSP exam
• Is the CISSP right for you?
• Careers in information security
• Value of certification

2. Inside the CISSP Exam

• Registering for the exam
• Exam environment
• Question types
• Computerized adaptive testing
• Passing the exam

3. Preparing for the Exam

• Exam tips
• Practice tests

4. Experience Requirement

• Meeting the experience requirement
• Continuing education requirements

5. Domain 1: Security and Risk Management

• Overview of the Security and Risk Management domain

6. Security Fundamentals

• The five pillars of information security
• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Availability
• Authenticity and nonrepudiation

7. Security Governance

• Aligning security with the business
• Organizational processes
• Security roles and responsibilities
• Control and risk frameworks

8. Compliance and Ethics

• Legal and compliance risks
• Data privacy
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• California privacy law
• National data privacy laws
• Computer crimes
• Software licensing
• Intellectual property
• Import and export controls
• Data breaches
• Ethics

9. Security Policy

• Security policy framework
• Security policies

10. Business Continuity

• Business continuity planning
• Business continuity controls
• High availability and fault tolerance

11. Personnel Security

• Personnel security
• Security in the hiring process
• Employee termination process
• Employee privacy
• Social networking

12. Risk Management

• Risk analysis, assessment, and scope
• Quantitative risk assessment
• Risk treatment
• Security control selection and implementation
• Continuous monitoring, measurement, and tuning
• Risk management frameworks
• Risk visibility and reporting

13. Threat Modeling

• Threat intelligence
• Managing threat indicators
• Intelligence sharing
• Threat research
• Identifying threats
• Automating threat intelligence
• Threat hunting

14. Supply Chain Risk Management

• Managing vendor relationships
• Vendor agreements
• Vendor information management
• Cloud audits

15. Awareness and Training

• Security awareness training
• Compliance training
• User habits
• Measuring compliance and security posture

16. Domain 2: Asset Security

• Overview of the Asset Security domain

17. Data Security

• Understanding data security
• Data security policies
• Data security roles
• Limiting data collection
• The data lifecycle

18. Data Security Controls

• Developing security baselines
• Leveraging industry standards
• Customizing security standards
• Cloud storage security
• Information classification
• Digital rights management
• Data loss prevention

19. Change and Configuration Management

• Change management
• Configuration and asset management
• Physical asset management
• Supply chain risks and mitigations

20. Domain 3: Security Engineering

• Overview of the Security Architecture and Engineering domain

21. Secure Design

• Secure design principles
• Security models
• Security evaluation models
• Segregation of duties
• Privacy by design
• Secure defaults
• Information system lifecycle

22. Virtualization and Cloud Computing

• What is the cloud?
• Cloud computing roles
• Drivers for cloud computing
• Security service providers
• Multitenant computing
• Virtualization
• Desktop and application virtualization
• Cloud compute resources
• Containerization
• Cloud activities and the cloud reference architecture
• Cloud deployment models
• Cloud service categories
• Edge and fog computing

23. Hardware Security

• Memory protection
• Hardware encryption
• Hardware and firmware security

24. Server Security Issues

• Server and database security
• NoSQL databases
• Distributed and high-performance computing

25. Embedded Systems Security

• Industrial control systems and operational technology
• Internet of things
• Securing smart devices
• Secure networking for smart devices
• Embedded systems
• Communications for embedded devices

26. Encryption

• Understanding encryption
• Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
• Goals of cryptography
• Codes and ciphers
• Cryptographic math
• Choosing encryption algorithms
• The perfect encryption algorithm
• The cryptographic lifecycle

27. Symmetric Cryptography

• Data encryption standard
• 3DES
• AES, Blowfish, and Twofish
• RC4
• Cipher modes
• Steganography

28. Asymmetric Cryptography

• Rivest-Shamir-Adelman (RSA)
• PGP and GnuPG
• Elliptic curve and quantum cryptography

29. Key Management

• Key management practices
• Key exchange
• Diffie-Hellman
• Key escrow
• Key stretching
• Hardware security modules

30. Public Key Infrastructure

• Trust models
• PKI and digital certificates
• Hash functions
• Digital signatures
• Digital signature standard
• Create a digital certificate
• Revoke a digital certificate
• Certificate stapling
• Certificate authorities
• Certificate subjects
• Certificate types
• Certificate formats

31. Cryptanalytic Attacks

• Brute-force attacks
• Knowledge-based attacks
• Eavesdropping attacks
• Implementation attacks
• Limitations of encryption algorithms
• Ransomware

32. Physical Security

• Site and facility design
• Data center environmental controls
• Data center environmental protection
• Power control
• Physical access control
• Visitor management
• Physical security personnel

33. Software Security Architecture

• SOAP and REST
• SOA and microservices

34. Domain 4: Communication and Network Security

• Introducing the Communication and Network Security domain

35. TCP/IP Networking

• Introducing TCP/IP
• IP addresses and DHCP
• Network traffic
• Domain name system (DNS)
• Network ports
• ICMP
• Multilayer protocols

36. Secure Network Design

• Public and private addressing
• Subnetting
• Security zones
• Isolating sensitive systems
• VLANs and logical segmentation
• Security device placement
• Software defined networking (SDN)
• Transmission media
• Cloud networking
• Zero trust and SASE

37. Network Security Devices

• Routers, switches, and bridges
• Network topologies
• Transport architecture
• Firewalls
• Proxy servers
• Load balancers
• VPNs and VPN concentrators
• Network intrusion detection and prevention
• Protocol analyzers
• Unified threat management
• Content distribution networks

38. Network Security Techniques

• Restricting network access
• Network access control
• Firewall rule management
• Router configuration security
• Switch configuration security
• Maintaining network availability
• Network monitoring
• Firewall and network logs
• Network performance metrics
• SNMP
• Isolating sensitive systems
• Deception technologies
• Network support

39. Specialized Networking

• Telephony
• Multimedia collaboration
• Storage networks

40. Transport Encryption

• TLS and SSL
• IPsec
• Remote network access

41. Wireless Networking

• Understanding wireless networking
• Wireless encryption
• Wireless authentication
• Wireless signal propagation
• Wireless networking equipment

42. Mobile Device Security

• Mobile connection methods
• Mobile device security
• Mobile device management
• Mobile device tracking
• Mobile application security
• Mobile security enforcement
• Bring your own device (BYOD)
• Mobile deployment models

43. Host Security

• Operating system security
• Malware prevention
• Application management
• Host-based network security controls
• File integrity monitoring

44. Domain 5: Identity and Access Management

• Introducing the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain

45. Identification

• Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
• Usernames and access cards
• Biometrics
• Registration and identity proofing

46. Authentication

• Authentication factors
• Multifactor authentication
• Something you have
• Password authentication protocols
• Single sign-on and federation
• RADIUS
• Kerberos and LDAP
• SAML
• Identity as a service (IDaaS)
• OAuth and OpenID Connect
• Certificate-based authentication
• Passwordless authentication

47. Accountability

• Accountability
• Session management

48. Account Management

• Understand account and privilege management
• Account types
• Account policies
• Password policies
• Manage roles
• Account monitoring
• Provisioning and deprovisioning

49. Authorization

• Understand authorization
• Mandatory access controls
• Discretionary access controls
• Access control lists
• Database access control
• Advanced authorization concepts

50. Access Control Attacks

• Social engineering
• Impersonation attacks
• Identity fraud and pretexting
• Watering hole attacks
• Physical social engineering

51. Domain 6: Security Assessment and Testing

• Introducing the Security Assessment and Testing domain

52. Vulnerability Scanning

• What is vulnerability management?
• Identify scan targets
• Scan configuration
• Scan perspective
• Analyzing scan reports
• Correlating scan results

53. Penetration Testing

• Penetration testing
• Ethical disclosure
• Bug bounty
• Cybersecurity exercises

54. Log Reviews

• Logging security information
• Security information and event management
• Continuous security monitoring
• Endpoint monitoring

55. Code Testing

• Code review
• Code tests
• Fuzz testing
• Interface testing
• Misuse case testing
• Test coverage analysis
• Code repositories
• Third-party code
• Software risk analysis and mitigation

56. Disaster Recovery Planning

• Disaster recovery
• Backups
• Restoring backups
• Disaster recovery sites
• Testing BC/DR plans
• After action reports

57. Assessing Security Processes

• Collect security process data
• Management review and approval
• Security metrics
• Audits and assessments
• Control management

58. Domain 7: Security Operations

• Introducing the Security Operations domain

59. Investigations and Forensics

• Conducting investigations
• Evidence types
• Introduction to forensics
• System and file forensics
• Network forensics
• Software forensics
• Mobile device forensics
• Embedded device forensics
• Chain of custody
• Reporting and documenting incidents
• Electronic discovery (eDiscovery)

60. Privilege Management

• Need to know and least privilege
• Privileged account management

61. Incident Management

• Build an incident response program
• Creating an incident response team
• Incident communications plan
• Incident identification
• Escalation and notification
• Mitigation
• Containment techniques
• Incident eradication and recovery
• Validation
• Post-incident activities

62. Personnel Safety

• Personnel safety
• Emergency management

63. Domain 8: Software Development Security

• Introducing the Software Development Security domain

64. Software Development Lifecycle

• Software platforms
• Development methodologies
• Scaled agile framework
• Maturity models
• Automation and DevOps
• Programming languages
• Acquired software

65. Application Attacks

• OWASP top ten
• Application security
• Preventing SQL injection
• Understanding cross-site scripting
• Request forgery
• Defending against directory traversal
• Overflow attacks
• Explaining cookies and attachments
• Session hijacking
• Code execution attacks
• Privilege escalation
• Driver manipulation
• Memory vulnerabilities
• Race condition vulnerabilities

66. Secure Coding Practices

• Input validation
• Parameterized queries
• Authentication/session management issues
• Output encoding
• Error and exception handling
• Code signing
• Database security
• Data de-identification
• Data obfuscation

67. What's Next

• Preparing for the exam