Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
(SSCP.AE1)
/ ISBN: 9781644591840
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Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Become an (ISC)² SSCP certified professional with the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) course and lab. The lab is cloud-based, device-enabled, and can easily be integrated with an LMS. The SSCP course covers the certification exam objectives and provides skills required for understanding common needs for privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and professional ethics, ongoing, continuous monitoring, and more. The SSCP training will help you understand exam objectives completely with its various interactive learning resources.
The (ISC)² SSCP certification exam is an entry-level security exam sponsored by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc., or (ISC)². The (ISC)² SSCP exam objectives cover access controls, security operations, and administration, risk identification, monitoring, and analysis, incident response and recovery, cryptography, network, and communications security, and systems and application security.
Lessons
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13+ Lessons
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128+ Quizzes
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108+ Flashcards
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345+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
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125+ Pre Assessment Questions
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2+ Full Length Tests
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125+ Post Assessment Questions
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250+ Practice Test Questions
Lab
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41+ Performance lab
- About This Course
- What Is an SSCP?
- Using This Course
- Objective Map
- Earning Your Certification
- Information: The Lifeblood of Business
- Policy, Procedure, and Process: How Business Gets Business Done
- Who Runs the Business?
- Summary
- The Common Needs for Privacy, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
- Training and Educating Everybody
- SSCPs and Professional Ethics
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- It’s a Dangerous World
- The Four Faces of Risk
- Getting Integrated and Proactive with Information Defense
- Risk Management: Concepts and Frameworks
- Risk Assessment
- Four Choices for Limiting or Containing Damage
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- From Tactical Planning to Information Security Operations
- Operationalizing Risk Mitigation: Step by Step
- The Ongoing Job of Keeping Your Baseline Secure
- Ongoing, Continuous Monitoring
- Reporting to and Engaging with Management
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Trusting Our Communications in a Converged World
- Internet Systems Concepts
- Two Protocol Stacks, One Internet
- IP Addresses, DHCP, and Subnets
- IPv4 vs. IPv6: Key Differences and Options
- CIANA Layer by Layer
- Securing Networks as Systems
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Identity and Access: Two Sides of the Same CIANA Coin
- Identity Management Concepts
- Access Control Concepts
- Network Access Control
- Implementing and Scaling IAM
- Zero Trust Architectures
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Cryptography: What and Why
- Building Blocks of Digital Cryptographic Systems
- Keys and Key Management
- Modern Cryptography: Beyond the “Secret Decoder Ring”
- “Why Isn’t All of This Stuff Secret?”
- Cryptography and CIANA
- Public Key Infrastructures
- Other Protocols: Applying Cryptography to Meet Different Needs
- Measures of Merit for Cryptographic Solutions
- Attacks and Countermeasures
- On the Near Horizon
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Infrastructure Security Is Baseline Management
- Infrastructures 101 and Threat Modeling
- Malware: Exploiting the Infrastructure’s Vulnerabilities
- Privacy and Secure Browsing
- “The Sin of Aggregation”
- Updating the Threat Model
- Managing Your Systems’ Security
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- It’s a Data-Driven World…At the Endpoint
- Software as Appliances
- Applications Lifecycles and Security
- CIANA and Applications Software Requirements
- Application Vulnerabilities
- “Shadow IT:” The Dilemma of the User as Builder
- Information Quality and Information Assurance
- Protecting Data in Motion, in Use, and at Rest
- Into the Clouds: Endpoint App and Data Security Considerations
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Countermeasures: Keeping Your Apps and Data Safe and Secure
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- Defeating the Kill Chain One Skirmish at a Time
- Incident Response Framework
- Preparation
- Detection and Analysis
- Containment and Eradication
- Recovery: Getting Back to Business
- Post-Incident Activities
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- A Spectrum of Disruption
- Surviving to Operate: Plan for It!
- Cloud-Based “Do-Over” Buttons for Continuity, Security, and Resilience
- CIANA at Layer 8 and Above
- Summary
- Exam Essentials
- On Our Way to the Future
- CIA, CIANA, or CIANAPS?
- Enduring Lessons
- Your Next Steps
- At the Close
Hands on Activities (Performance Labs)
- Encrypting Files with EFS
- Conducting Vulnerability Scanning Using Nessus
- Installing Antivirus Software
- Using Social Engineering Techniques to Plan an Attack
- Configuring a VPN
- Using Ettercap for ARP Spoofing
- Obtaining Hardware Information of a Network Adapter
- Obtaining the ARP Cache
- Obtaining Information about Different IP versions
- Obtaining the IP Version of a Network Adapter
- Getting the TCP Settings
- Getting Information about the Current Connection Statistics of TCP
- Getting the UDP Settings
- Getting Information about the Current Connection Statistics of UDP
- Getting Information about DNS
- Finding the Host Name of a Machine
- Finding the Physical Address of a LAN Adapter
- Finding the Logical Address of a LAN Adapter
- Tracing Route Using Tracert
- Intercepting Packets
- Configuring a Router
- Configuring SSH in a Router
- Configuring Static Routing
- Configuring Default Routing
- Configuring VLANs
- Configuring Network Address Translation
- Assigning Different Classes of IP Addresses
- Adding an IPv6 Address
- Spoofing MAC Address
- Performing Session Hijacking Using Burp Suite
- Attacking a Website Using XSS Injection
- Exploiting a Website Using SQL Injection
- Performing a Man-in-the-Middle Attack
- Using nmap for Scanning
- Performing a DoS Attack with the SYN Flood
- Creating ACL in a Router
- Observing an MD5-Generated Hash Value
- Observe an SHA-Generated Hash Value
- Applying Symmetric Key Encryption
- Using OpenSSL to Create a Public/Private Key Pair
- Creating a Virtual Machine
| What are the prerequisites for this exam? | To qualify for this cybersecurity certification, you must pass the exam and have at least one year of cumulative, paid work experience in one or more of the seven domains of the (ISC)² SSCP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). |
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| What is the exam registration fee? | USD 249 |
| Where do I take the exam? | Pearson VUE |
| What is the format of the exam? | Multiple choice questions |
| How many questions are asked in the exam? | The exam contains 125 questions. |
| What is the duration of the exam? | 180 minutes |
| What is the passing score? | 700 |
| What is the exam's retake policy? | Here are the retake policies:
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| What is the validity of the certification? | Three years |
| Where can I find more information about this exam? | To know more about the SSCP, click here. |
| What are the career opportunities after passing this exam? |
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