ISC2 - CISSP-ISSEP Information Systems Security Engineering Professional

Curriculum

CISSP-ISSEP Information Systems Security Engineering Professional

Domain 1: Systems Security Engineering Foundations

1.1 Apply systems security engineering fundamentals

1.2 Execute systems security engineering processes

1.3 Integrate with applicable system development methodology

1.4 Perform technical management

1.5 Participate in the acquisition process

1.6 Design Trusted Systems and Networks (TSN)

• Understand systems security engineering trust concepts and hierarchies
• Identify the relationships between systems and security engineering processes
• Apply structural security design principles
• Integrate security tasks and activities
• Verify security requirements throughout the process
• Integrate software assurance methods
• Perform project planning processes
• Perform project assessment and control processes
• Perform decision management processes
• Perform risk management processes
• Perform configuration management processes
• Perform information management processes
• Perform measurement processes
• Perform Quality Assurance (QA) processes
• Identify opportunities for security process automation
• Identify organizational security authority
• Identify system security policy elements
• Integrate design concepts (e.g., open, proprietary, modular)
• Prepare security requirements for acquisitions
• Participate in selection process
• Participate in Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
• Participate in the development and review of contractual documentation

Domain 2: Risk Management

2.1 Apply security risk management principles

2.2 Address risk to system

2.3 Manage risk to operations

• Establish risk context
• Identify system security risks
• Perform risk analysis
• Perform risk evaluation
• Recommend risk treatment options
• Document risk findings and decisions
• Determine stakeholder risk tolerance
• Identify remediation needs and other system changes
• Determine risk treatment options
• Assess proposed risk treatment options
• Recommend risk treatment options

Analyze organizational and operational environment

3.2 Apply system security principles

3.3 Develop system requirements

3.4 Create system security architecture and design

Domain 3: Security Planning and Design

• Capture stakeholder requirements
• Identify relevant constraints and assumptions
• Assess and document threats
• Determine system protection needs
• Develop Security Test Plans (STP)
• Incorporate resiliency methods to address threats
• Apply defense-in-depth concepts
• Identify fail-safe defaults
• Reduce Single Points of Failure (SPOF)
• Incorporate least privilege concept
• Understand economy of mechanism
• Understand Separation of Duties (SoD) concept
• Develop system security context
• Identify functions within the system and security Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
• Document system security requirements baseline
• Analyze system security requirements
• Develop functional analysis and allocation
• Maintain traceability between specified design and system requirements
• Develop system security design components
• Perform trade-off studies
• Assess protection effectiveness

Domain 4: Systems Implementation, Verification and Validation

4.1 Implement, integrate and deploy security solutions

4.2 Verify and validate security solutions

• Perform system security implementation and integration
• Perform system security deployment activities
• Perform system security verification
• Perform security validation to demonstrate security controls meet stakeholder security requirements

Domain 5: Secure Operations, Change Management and Disposal

5.1 Develop secure operations strategy

5.2 Participate in secure operations

5.3 Participate in change management

5.4 Participate in the disposal process

• Specify requirements for personnel conducting operations
• Contribute to the continuous communication with stakeholders for security relevant aspects of the system
• Develop continuous monitoring solutions and processes
• Support the Incident Response (IR) process
• Develop secure maintenance strategy
• Participate in change reviews
• Determine change impact
• Perform verification and validation of changes
• Update risk assessment documentation
• Identify disposal security requirements
• Develop secure disposal strategy
• Develop decommissioning and disposal procedures
• Audit results of the decommissioning and disposal process