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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In the previous chapter, you looked at network architecture and how network protocols communicate, but if you are tasked with securing a network, you also need to know the risks that they introduce and how to mitigate them. This section focuses on some of the critical design aspects of building secure communication channels such as voice, multimedia collaboration, remote access, and virtualizing networks. You will look at remote access connectivity and the security ramifications of multimedia collaboration and third-party connectivity.

Voice

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