Information Systems Security

This program is designed to prepare learners for a successful career in information security or cybersecurity. You will learn the required skills, knowledge, and abilities across a wide array of security practices and principles. Upon successful completion of the program, you will be able to effectively design, engineer, and manage the overall security posture of an organization, and become familiar with a variety of controls for both data and systems.

Information Systems Security covers all eight domains of practice codified in the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). Upon completion of the program, along with additional study, you will be able to challenge the CISSP certification exams. Successful candidates who pass the exam will require a minimum of five years cumulative paid work experience in two or more of the eight domains to become a CISSP. Candidates who do not have the required experience to become a CISSP may become an Associate of International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² by passing the CISSP examination. The Associate of (ISC)² will have six years to earn the five years required experience.

By completion of this program, successful learners will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge in security management, including risk assessment and management, security controls, security policies, and laws and regulations compliance
• Explain and apply effective asset security, including strategies to identify, categorize, secure, and monitor assets throughout the information lifecycle
• Explain and use security architecture and engineering principles in the design and organization of the components, processes, services and controls to reduce the security risks associated with a system to an acceptable level
• Explain and apply secure network design principles in various aspects of computing networks, interconnections, networked devices, and communication processes related to information security
• Demonstrate knowledge of essential concepts and technologies involved in identity and access management, including understanding the requirements for identity information, choosing and implementing systems that meets those requirements, and ensuring administrative controls
• Describe and use tools and techniques to assess an organizations' security posture, including both active and passive testing methods, as well as physical and logical security assessments
• Demonstrate knowledge in maintaining the various aspects of an organization's security controls in a functional state, as well as the processes and procedures needed to maintain security across people, processes, and technology
• Describe the processes and tools used to secure software applications throughout the software development life cycle, which includes the developing environment, fundamental software components such as operating systems, and the applications used to handle data

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This program is perfect if you...

• Are a recent graduate of an IT or Computer Science degree, associate degree, diploma who plans to challenge the CISSP exams to become Associate of (ISC)²
• Are an experienced IT professional who is keen to become a manager, director, senior specialist, or chief information security officer
• Want to learn the technical skills needed for a career change to cybersecurity or information security
• Are an IT infrastructure or cybersecurity professional looking to learn new in-demand skills

What will I get?

Students who complete this program will receive a Digital Badge.

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