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CISSP in 21 Days

You're reading from   CISSP in 21 Days Boost your confidence and get the competitive edge you need to crack the exam in just 21 days!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785884498
Length 402 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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M. L. Srinivasan M. L. Srinivasan
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Preface 1. Day 1 – Security and Risk Management - Security, Compliance, and Policies FREE CHAPTER 2. Day 2 – Security and Risk Management - Risk Management, Business Continuity, and Security Education 3. Day 3 – Asset Security - Information and Asset Classification 4. Day 4 – Asset Security - Data Security Controls and Handling 5. Day 5 – Exam Cram and Practice Questions 6. Day 6 – Security Engineering - Security Design, Practices, Models, and Vulnerability Mitigation 7. Day 7 – Security Engineering - Cryptography 8. Day 8 – Communication and Network Security - Network Security 9. Day 9 – Communication and Network Security - Communication Security 10. Day 10 – Exam Cram and Practice Questions 11. Day 11 – Identity and Access Management - Identity Management 12. Day 12 – Identity and Access Management - Access Management, Provisioning, and Attacks 13. Day 13 – Security Assessment and Testing - Designing, Performing Security Assessment, and Tests 14. Day 14 – Security Assessment and Testing - Controlling, Analyzing, Auditing, and Reporting 15. Day 15 – Exam Cram and Practice Questions 16. Day 16 – Security Operations - Foundational Concepts 17. Day 17 – Security Operations - Incident Management and Disaster Recovery 18. Day 18 – Software Development Security - Security in Software Development Life Cycle 19. Day 19 – Software Development Security - Assessing effectiveness of Software Security 20. Day 20 – Exam Cram and Practice Questions 21. Day 21 – Exam Cram and Mock Test

Cryptographic standards

Cryptography standards are related to the following:

  • Encryption
  • Hashing
  • Digital signatures
  • Public key infrastructure
  • Wireless
  • Federal standards

We've covered different cryptographic standards pertaining to encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and public key infrastructure in the previous sections. In this section, we'll cover the wireless standards and the Federal standard FIPS-140 for cryptographic modules.

Wireless cryptographic standards

Wireless protocols and services are predominantly governed by IEEE 802.11 standards. These standards are basically for Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) for computer communications.

The following are some of the cryptographic standards that are used in WLAN:

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an algorithm that uses the stream cipher RC4 encryption standard for confidentiality protection and CRC-32 for integrity assurance. This algorithm is now deprecated as it was breached easily.

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security...

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