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ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional® (CISSP®)

Get CISSP® certification, fast.

CISSP is the gold-standard cybersecurity certification. It proves you’ve got the skills, experience and mindset to secure systems, manage risk, and lead at the highest level.

Exam? Included. Official ISC2 courseware? Included. This is learning built for you to pass first time.

What you’ll learn

This is more than a course – it’s an accelerated route to CISSP® certification.

You’ll cover the full CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), across eight critical domains:

  • Security and risk management
  • Asset security
  • Security architecture and engineering
  • Communication and network security
  • Identity and access management (IAM)
  • Security assessment and testing
  • Security operations
  • Software development security

Curriculum

8 domains

You'll become an expert across the 8 CISSP domains:

Foundations, frameworks, and ethics. Risk management and compliance essentials.
  • Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
  • Understand and apply security concepts
  • Evaluate and apply security governance principles
  • Understand legal, regulatory, and compliance issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context
  • Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)
  • Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
  • Identify, analyze, assess, prioritize, and implement Business Continuity (BC) requirements
  • Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures
  • Understand and apply risk management concepts
  • Understand and apply threat modeling concepts and methodologies
  • Apply Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) concepts
  • Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program
  • Identify and classify information and assets
  • Establish information and asset handling requirements
  • Provision information and assets securely
  • Manage data lifecycle
  • Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g., End of Life (EOL), End of Support)
  • Determine data security controls and compliance requirements
  • Research, implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
  • Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Biba, Star Model, Bell- LaPadula)
  • Select controls based upon systems security requirements
  • Understand security capabilities of Information Systems (IS) (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)
  • Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
  • Select and determine cryptographic solutions
  • Understand methods of cryptanalytic attacks
  • Apply security principles to site and facility design
  • Design site and facility security controls
  • Manage the information system lifecycle
Secure your network infrastructure from edge to core.  
  • Apply secure design principles in network architectures
  • Secure network components
  • Implement secure communication channels according to design
  • Control physical and logical access to assets
  • Design identification and authentication strategy (e.g., people, devices, and services)
  • Federated identity with a third-party service
  • Implement and manage authorization mechanisms
  • Manage access, authorisation, authentication, and identity lifecycle.
  • Implement authentication systems

Prerequisites

This course is designed for professionals already immersed in cybersecurity. To get certified, you’ll need:

  • At least five years of full-time, paid work experience in two or more CISSP CBK domains

Don’t meet the experience criteria yet?

  • You can earn a one-year waiver with a four-year college degree or an approved credential.

  • Or sit the exam and become an Associate of ISC2, then gain the experience over the next six years to earn your full CISSP.

Exam info

The CISSP exam? It’s built in. Booked from day one. Included in your package and scheduled while your knowledge is fresh. The chances you’ll need our Firebrand Certification Guarantee? Slim. But it’s there, ready for you to take a second shot if you don’t pass first time.

Duration: 3 hours

Questions: 100–150 (CAT format)

Style: Multiple-choice & advanced item types

Passing score: 700/1000

Security and risk management

16%

Asset security

10%

Security architecture and engineering

13%

Communication and network security

13%

Identity and access management (IAM)

13%

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We offer multiple ways to learn to suit your preference and situation.
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    Get certified at pace in a convenient city centre location. Firebrand City Centre courses are in-person. They’re collaborative and delivered by leading industry experts. Accelerated multi-day 9am to 5pm learning in central London and Manchester.

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      Residential

      Check in at our training centre. Check out certified. Training, accommodation, and exam – all in one place. Complete focus on your certification. Accelerated learning that respects your time.

        In Person

        Hybrid

        Hybrid learning is our accelerated bootcamp on your terms.

          FAQs

          CISSP is the gold-standard cybersecurity certification. It proves you’ve got the skills, experience and mindset to secure systems, manage risk, and lead at the highest level.
            Security consultants, analysts, architects and auditors. It’s also ideal for ambitious professionals targeting CISO roles.

              Because nobody gets you certified faster – or more effectively. Lecture. Lab. Review. Then pass.

              Our award-winning model focuses on what matters. Industry professionals delivering your lectures. Labs that bring the real world into the classroom, immersing you in every practical detail.


              Reviews to test – and stretch – your knowledge. Exams that come at the perfect moment – when the material is still fresh in your mind. Our focused approach delivers results.

                Yes. Choose between Residential, City Centre, or Live Online delivery – the same fast, immersive course, wherever you are.

                  Yes. If you pass the exam but don’t yet have the experience, you become an Associate of ISC2. You’ll have six years to gain the experience and receive your full CISSP.

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