ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional® (CISSP®)

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CAD$5720

Duration: 5 days

Code: cissp

Private Cohort pricing available

What you’ll learn

This is more than a course – it’s an accelerated route to CISSP® certification.

You’ll cover the full CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), across eight critical domains:

  • Security and risk management
  • Asset security
  • Security architecture and engineering
  • Communication and network security
  • Identity and access management (IAM)
  • Security assessment and testing
  • Security operations
  • Software development security

Curriculum

8 domains

You'll become an expert across the 8 CISSP domains:

Foundations, frameworks, and ethics. Risk management and compliance essentials.
  • Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
  • Understand and apply security concepts
  • Evaluate and apply security governance principles
  • Understand legal, regulatory, and compliance issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context
  • Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)
  • Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
  • Identify, analyze, assess, prioritize, and implement 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
  • Identify and classify information and assets
  • Establish information and asset handling requirements
  • Provision information and assets securely
  • Manage data lifecycle
  • Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g., End of Life (EOL), End of Support)
  • Determine data security controls and compliance requirements
  • Research, implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
  • Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Biba, Star Model, Bell- LaPadula)
  • Select controls based upon systems security requirements
  • Understand security capabilities of Information Systems (IS) (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)
  • 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
  • Manage the information system lifecycle
Secure your network infrastructure from edge to core.  
  • Apply secure design principles in network architectures
  • Secure network components
  • Implement secure communication channels according to design
  • Control physical and logical access to assets
  • Design identification and authentication strategy (e.g., people, devices, and services)
  • Federated identity with a third-party service
  • Implement and manage authorization mechanisms
  • Manage access, authorisation, authentication, and identity lifecycle.
  • Implement authentication systems

Prerequisites

This course is designed for professionals already immersed in cybersecurity. To get certified, you’ll need:

  • At least five years of full-time, paid work experience in two or more CISSP CBK domains

Don’t meet the experience criteria yet?

  • You can earn a one-year waiver with a four-year college degree or an approved credential.

  • Or sit the exam and become an Associate of ISC2, then gain the experience over the next six years to earn your full CISSP.

Exam info

The course fee includes a voucher for the official ISC2 CISSP exam.


Duration: 3 hours

Questions: 100–150 (CAT format)

Style: Multiple-choice & advanced item types

Passing score: 700/1000

Security and risk management

16%

Asset security

10%

Security architecture and engineering

13%

Communication and network security

13%

Identity and access management (IAM)

13%

FAQs

CISSP is the gold-standard cybersecurity certification. It proves you’ve got the skills, experience and mindset to secure systems, manage risk, and lead at the highest level.
    Security consultants, analysts, architects and auditors. It’s also ideal for ambitious professionals targeting CISO roles.

      Because nobody gets you certified faster – or more effectively. Lecture. Lab. Review. Then pass.

      Our award-winning model focuses on what matters. Industry professionals delivering your lectures. Labs that bring the real world into the classroom, immersing you in every practical detail.


      Reviews to test – and stretch – your knowledge. Exams that come at the perfect moment – when the material is still fresh in your mind. Our focused approach delivers results.

        Yes. If you pass the exam but don’t yet have the experience, you become an Associate of ISC2. You’ll have six years to gain the experience and receive your full CISSP.

          You’ll need to:

          • Earn 120 CPEs every three years

          • Pay an annual $85 USD maintenance fee

          • Follow the ISC2 Code of Ethics • We’ll support you to get any audits or endorsements you need.

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