SKILL BENCHMARK

Security for Engineering Leaders Competency (Intermediate Level)

  • 15m
  • 15 questions
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The Security for Engineering Leaders Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to identify security terms, expressions, and frameworks. You will be evaluated on your understanding of data security challenges and best practices. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have good exposure to data and information security.

Topics covered

  • compare the COBIT, NIST, and FISMA frameworks
  • differentiate between physical, asset, and data security
  • differentiate between risk identification, risk assessment, and risk management
  • discern differences and similarities in AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes
  • identify challenges and best practices around project workflow methods
  • identify the differences between development, security, and operations as it relates to data security
  • identify the key components of the FISMA framework
  • outline challenges and best practices around data security and the cloud
  • outline challenges and best practices around the management of data that is in motion, at rest, or in use
  • outline data at rest, data in motion, and data in storage
  • outline the DevSecOps practices of scanning, early threat modeling, static code analysis, and code reviews
  • outline the key components of the COBIT framework
  • state challenges and best practices around data security and team management
  • state challenges and best practices around the different places data can be
  • state the key components of the NIST framework