652 Security Architect Advanced KSAT Journey

There are several cloud computing fundamental definitions, characteristics, and building block technologies each CCSP candidate should know. Learn about these and other core cloud computing concepts in this CCSP course. Explore the core fundamentals, core concepts, and technologies of cloud computing, such as cloud roles and responsibilities, broad network access, virtualization, and others. Next, study cloud computing's shared considerations and value propositions, including interoperability, agility, security, resiliency, performance, and more. Finally, examine the impact of cloud and related technologies like data science, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), DevSecOps, and others. This is one of a collection of courses that fully prepares the learner for the (ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 2022 exam.

Explore how IT management frameworks provide a structured approach to managing and auditing IT assets and how risk assessments often drive the IS audit in this 11-video course, helping learners prepare for the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. Key concepts covered in this 11-video course include: how IT governance provides a structured approach to ensuring IT solutions are aligned with business goals, including outsourced tasks; how Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) can ensure business objectives are met by aligning appropriate IT processes; and how Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) practices can streamline IT service delivery. Learn how International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards can result in proper IT governance; how risk management can improve business operations; how to map various risk treatments to threats; and how the Business Model for Information Security (BMIS) encompasses information security planning, implementation, and management. Finally, learn how the Information Technology Assurance Framework (ITAF) is an assurance that an audit is done properly; the purpose of IT balanced scorecards; and how to map common framework characteristics to IS audits.

In this 14-video course, discover how identifying IT asset risks and applying appropriate data privacy standards helps keep sensitive data from unauthorized entities, while preparing for the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. Key concepts covered course include: how the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) enhances IT security; understanding examples of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI); how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) assures data privacy; and how to align data protection policies with GDPR. Then learn how Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) protects cardholder information; how to identify network devices with insufficient antimalware protection with the free Spiceworks tool; and how Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects sensitive medical information. Next, learn how Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) standards secure US Government information systems; how to determine the annualized loss expectancy (ALE) value with an online ALE calculator; and how to scan a network by using Network Mapper (Nmap) to determine which devices are present. Finally, map IT solutions to data privacy requirements.

Explore how public key infrastructure (PKI) provides a hierarchy of digital security certificates used to secure data and authenticate users and devices and how data are protected with encryption and file integrity verification, as you prepare for the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. Key concepts covered in this 16-video course include: how cryptography protects data; distinguishing between asymmetric and symmetric encryption; steps in the PKI certificate lifecycle; and how to deploy a private Microsoft CA (certificate authority). Next, learn about configuring customized PKI certificate templates; how Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) secure network communications; disabling SSLv3 (secure sockets layer) on clients and servers; and configuring an Internet Information Services (IIS) website with a PKI certificate. Then learn about client PKI certificates for website access; how to protect data at rest with Windows Encrypting File System (EFS); and how to protect data at rest with Windows BitLocker. Finally, learn to use SHA-256 (secure hash algorithm) hashing to verify file integrity; and work with PKI certificates to secure data in transit and at rest.

This course covers material necessary to take the ISACA CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) exam, and you will explore systems planning, testing, integration, and delivery to ensure timely delivery of system changes or entire new solutions for security planning. First, you will explore IT system planning, including the system development life cycle, and learn how technicians can evaluate IT solutions to align with business needs. You will examine how IT solutions will require a feasibility analysis to determine whether those solutions can be used or if a new IT solution must be built. You will see that testing and continuous delivery ensures and maintain the stability and security of the solution. This course covers QA (quality assurance) and why QA needs to be adapted for different organizations, based on compliance with laws and regulations relevant to their business. Finally, this course examines IT solution deployment, including continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure deployment, system migration and data conversion, and how to perform a cloud migration assessment.

Regardless of the guidance that one is following as a security professional, one common theme is that architects must be held to a high ethical standard based on their responsibility to manage risk to all assets. In this course, you will explore the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) Code of Professional Ethics. Then you will discover organizational codes of ethics, which establish an integral aspect of a mission and model adopted by an organization. Finally, you will focus on the Five Pillars of information security - confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, and non-repudiation. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

Security governance is the set of practices exercised by executive management to offer strategic direction, ensuring that objectives are achieved, determining that risks are managed properly, and verifying that the organizations' resources are used responsibly. Begin this course by discovering how to align security governance with organizational goals and objectives. Then you will explore organizational processes like acquisitions, divestitures, and governance committees, as well as organizational roles and responsibilities. You will investigate security control frameworks like including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and learn about due diligence, due care, cybercrimes, and data breaches. Next, you will examine licensing and intellectual property requirements, import and export controls, transborder data flow, and privacy-related issues. Finally, you will focus on contractual, legal, industry standards and regulatory requirements. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

Security risk management involves the continual process of identifying security risks and implementing strategy and tactics to mitigate them. It is a vital component of any organization's strategy to protect its assets, ensure regulatory compliance, maintain operational continuity, and safeguard its reputation. Begin this course by exploring threat and vulnerability identification, as well as risk analysis, assessment, and response. Next, you will discover control categories, types, and assessments. Then you will investigate continuous monitoring and measurement and risk management reporting. Finally, you will examine continuous improvement and risk frameworks as you gain the essential skills to protect and secure your organization's critical resources. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

Threat modeling uses hypothetical scenarios, system and data flow diagrams, and testing to assist in securing systems, applications and data. In this course, the learner will explore threat modeling concepts and methodologies, supply chain risk management (SCRM) concepts, and ways to establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

For the CISSP exam, one must be able to understand a variety of security design principles and practices. The topics in this course cover the following Domain 3 objectives: research, implement, and manage engineering processes using secure design principles and understand the fundamental concepts of security models. Begin by exploring the importance of least privilege and defense in depth to create multi-layered security defenses and restrict access to sensitive information. You will then look at concepts of segregation of duties (SOD), keeping it simple and small, and privacy by default and design. Next, you will consider how the shared responsibility model is crucial for participants to grasp the roles and accountability in cloud and collaborative environments. You will also explore threat modeling techniques to identify, evaluate, and mitigate potential security threats. Finally, you will compare zero trust vs. trust, explore the secure access service edge (SASE) framework, and consider the fundamental concepts of security models such as Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Star, and Clark-Wilson. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

A security vulnerability is a weakness, flaw, or error found within a security element that has the potential to be leveraged by a threat agent in order to compromise a secure network, system, or application. The goal of this course is to prepare the CISSP candidate to assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements. In this course, you will begin by considering the potential vulnerabilities of various systems including client-based, server-based, database, cryptographic, industrial control (ICS), embedded, virtualized, cloud-based, and distributed systems and how you might mitigate these issues. Next, you will walk through ways to lessen vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and discover how to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in containerized systems and microservices including application programming interface (API) calls. You will also look at the potential weaknesses in serverless technologies, high-performance computing, and edge computing and how to alleviate these issues. Finally, you will explore the security capabilities of Information Systems like memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and encryption/decryption.

In the digital era, understanding network protocols and their impact on performance is crucial for IT professionals tasked with maintaining robust and efficient communication systems. This course is the first of two courses that cover a large part of CISSP Domain 4. In this course the learner will focus on several aspects of secure design principles in network architectures including OSI and TCP/IP protocols for IPv4 and IPv6, secure protocols, multilayer protocol implications, converged protocols, transport architectures, performance metrics, and traffic flows. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

In today's increasingly complex threat landscape, securing physical sites and facilities is paramount for safeguarding assets, data, and personnel. This course covers secure design principles in network architectures beginning with an exploration of physical and logical segmentation and microsegmentation. Next you will dig into edge networks, including peering and ingress/egress. You will compare types of wireless networks and explore cellular and mobile networks. Next you will discover the roles of content distribution networks (CDNs), software-defined networks (SDNs), and virtual private clouds (VPCs) in security design. Finally, you will explore security monitoring and management. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

A security audit is a comprehensive assessment of an organization's information systems. Typically, they measure the systems and applications against an audit checklist of industry best practices, externally established standards, and/or federal regulations. In this course, differentiate internal, external, and third-party auditing and learn about locations for auditing and controls testing, the purpose of a vulnerability assessment, and the basics of penetration testing. Next, explore log reviews and log data, code review and testing techniques, and compare synthetic transactions, benchmark, and misuse case testing. Finally, examine coverage analysis concepts, compare interface testing methods, and discover the purpose of compliance checks. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

According to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a cost-effective and time-efficient development team process used to design and build high-quality software. The goal of the SDLC is minimizing project risks through forward planning so software during production and beyond meets customer expectations. In this course, explore various development methodologies and maturity models and DevOps operations, maintenance, and change management concepts. Next, explore integrated product teams (IPTs), apply security controls in various scenarios, and work with integrated development environments (IDEs) and toolsets. Finally, learn how to apply security controls in CI/CD and code repositories, software configuration management (SCM) benefits, and application security testing techniques. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

It is one thing to implement application security controls, managed services, and cloud services; it is another thing to assess the ongoing success and failure of those initiatives. In the course, learn how to assess the auditing and logging of changes, risk analysis and mitigation, acquired software, managed services, and cloud services with the CCM. Next, explore source code security weaknesses and vulnerabilities at the source code level and how to secure application programming interfaces (API) with the 2023 OWASP Top 10. Finally, examine secure coding practices and software-defined security (SDS). This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.