ASM Educational Center, Inc.
11200 Rockville Pike, Suite 220 - Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: (301) 984-7400 - E-mail: info@asmed.com - Website: www.asmed.com

Course Outline
(ISC)2 CISSP Certification
Boot Camp Training

Note for regular training students: please, disregard the day-based schedule


Day 1 - Monday

Domain 1: Access Control Systems & Methodologies:

  • Control Access by Applying the Following Concepts/Methodology/Techniques
  • Understand and Identify Access Control Attacks (Brute Force, Dictionary, Spoofing, Denial of Service, etc.)
  • Design, Coordinate and Evaluate Penetration Test

Domain 2: Telecommunications & Network Security:

  • Establish Secure Voice and Facsimile Communications
  • Establish Secure Data Communications
  • Understand Secure Internet, Intranets, and Extranets
  • Telecommunications Security Management & Techniques
  • Prevent Attacks and Control Potential Attack Threats (e.g.; Malicious Code, Flooding, Spamming)
  • Remote access protocols (e.g., PPP/CHAP/PAP/EAP)
  • Practice Questions


Day 2 - Tuesday

Domain 3: Security Management Practices

  • Understand goals, mission, and objectives of the organization(s)
  • Understand the Concepts of Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality
  • Develop a Security Plan/Policy
  • Define Roles, Responsibilities and Organization (e.g., separation of duties)
  • Implement Service Level Agreements
  • Develop and Implement Standards, Guidelines, and Procedures
  • Risk Management Concepts
  • Evaluate Personnel Security
  • Understand Change Control/ Configuration Management Concepts (e.g., Hardware/ Software)
  • Conduct Security Awareness and Training
  • Understand Data Classification Concepts
  • Evaluate Information System Security Strategies
  • Certification and Accreditation
  • Privacy
  • P. Security Assessment

Domain 4: Applications & systems Development Security

  • Understand the System Life Cycle and Security (Cradle to Grave)
  • Databases and Data Warehousing Vulnerabilities, Threats and Protections
  • Application & System Development Knowledge Security-Based Systems (e.g., expert systems)
  • Application and System Vulnerabilities and Threats
  • Practice Questions & Testing

Day 3 - Wednesday

Domain 5: Cryptography

  • Applications and uses (e.g., confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation)
  • Methods of Encryption
  • Define Cryptographic Concepts
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (e.g. Certification Authorities, etc.)
  • Digital Signatures/ Non-repudiation
  • Message Digests (e.g., MD5, SHA-1)
  • Cryptanalytic Techniques
  • Internet Security (e.g., SSL)
  • Email Security (e.g., PGP, PEM)
  • Alternatives (e.g., steganography and watermarking)

Domain 6: Security Architecture Models

  • Understand the Theoretical Concepts of Security Models
  • Understand the Components of Information Systems Evaluation Models
  • Understand the Elements of Technical Platforms
  • Understand how the Security Architecture is affected by certain attacks
  • Practice Questions

Day 4 - Thursday

Domain 7: Operations Security

  • Apply Concepts to Daily Activities
  • Employ Resource Protection
  • Handle Violations, Incidents, and Breaches and Report When Necessary
  • Ensure Administrative Management and Control
  • Respond to Attacks

Domain 8: Business Continuity & Disaster Planning

  • Business organization analysis
  • Resource requirements
  • Business impact analysis
  • Recovery strategy
  • Plan design and development
  • Implementation
  • Restoration
  • Review - Assorted Practice Questions & Testing

Day 5 - Friday

Domain 9: Law, Investigations, and Forensics & Ethics

  • Identify International Laws that Pertain to Information Systems Security
  • Understand the Parameters of Investigations
  • Understand Forensic Procedures
  • Understand Professional Ethics
  • Understand Major Legal Systems (e.g., Common Law, Civil Law, Islamic, Socialist)

Domain 10: Physical Security

  • Restricted areas/ work areas security
  • Escort requirements/ visitor control
  • Turnstiles and mantraps
  • Security guards
  • Badges, Smart/ Dumb Cards, Keys and locks
  • Site selection and facility design configuration
  • Intrusion detection system (e.g., motion detectors, sensors, alarms, CCTV)
  • Audit trails/access logs & intrusion detection
  • Biometric access controls to facility
  • Power and HVAC considerations
  • Water issues-leakage, flooding
  • Fire detection and suppression
  • Natural disasters
  • Data center security
  • Enterprise identity management
  • Threats
  • Perimeter and building grounds protections
  • Portable Devices and Components
  • Final review & Questions

Note: The student is not obligated to take the exam at the end of training. He/She can take the exam when he/she feel comfortable to do it, after the training period.

ASM Educational Center, Inc.
11200 Rockville Pike, Suite 220 - Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: (301) 984-7400 - E-mail: info@asmed.com - Website: www.asmed.com

URL: www.asmed.com/programs/outlines/cissp_outline.htm