You're reading from Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Exam Guide Become a certified CISSP professional with practical exam-oriented knowledge of all eight domains

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800567610

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (3):

Ted Jordan

Ric Daza

Hinne Hettema

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Intro I: Becoming a CISSP FREE CHAPTER

2. Intro II: Pre-Assessment Test

3. Chapter 1: Ethics, Security Concepts, and Governance Principles

4. Chapter 2: Compliance, Regulation, and Investigations

5. Chapter 3: Security Policies and Business Continuity

6. Chapter 4: Risk Management, Threat Modeling, SCRM, and SETA

7. Chapter 5: Asset and Privacy Protection

8. Chapter 6: Information and Asset Handling

9. Chapter 7: Secure Design Principles and Controls

10. Chapter 8: Architecture Vulnerabilities and Cryptography

11. Chapter 9: Facilities and Physical Security

12. Chapter 10: Network Architecture Security

13. Chapter 11: Securing Communication Channels

14. Chapter 12: Identity, Access Management, and Federation

15. Chapter 13: Identity Management Implementation

16. Chapter 14: Designing and Conducting Security Assessments

17. Chapter 15: Designing and Conducting Security Testing

18. Chapter 16: Planning for Security Operations

19. Chapter 17: Security Operations

20. Chapter 18: Disaster Recovery

21. Chapter 19: Business Continuity, Personnel, and Physical Security

22. Chapter 20: Software Development Life Cycle Security

23. Chapter 21: Software Development Security Controls

24. Chapter 22: Securing Software Development

25. Chapter 23: Secure Coding Guidelines, Third-Party Software, and Databases

26. Chapter 24: Accessing the Online Practice Resources

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Understanding Legal and Regulatory Issues

Information security professionals must not only be familiar with the risks within their organizations but also have a wider understanding of managing risk from outside the organization. Cybercrimes and data breaches could cause losses of private data, leaving the organization open to civil and criminal lawsuits.

Moreover, improper licensing of software could leave a company open to civil laws because they have unlicensed software. An information security professional must put mitigations in place so that this does not occur.

Finally, we will explain privacy terminology, such as the difference between the data subject and the data owner.

Cybercrimes and Data Breaches

Security operation centers (SOCs), data centers, and cloud service providers have to be critically concerned about protecting their data, especially their PII records. More and more regulations are being released, requiring organizations to protect the privacy records...