Official CISSP Training Camp

Day 0 – Preparation Prior to Class

The CISSP exam requires at least five years of professional experience in two or more of the eight domains. Before attending the boot camp, review your hands-on experience and relate it to the domains. This practical knowledge will be crucial during the boot camp.

Section 1 – Security and Risk Management, Asset Security

• 1.1 – Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
• 1.2 – Understand and apply security concepts
• 1.3 – Evaluate and apply security governance principles
• 1.4 – Understand legal, regulatory, and compliance issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context
• 1.5 – Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)
• 1.6 – Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
• 1.7 – Identify, analyze, assess, prioritize, and implement Business Continuity (BC) requirements
• 1.8 – Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures
• 1.9 – Understand and apply risk management concepts
• 1.10 – Understand and apply threat modeling concepts and methodologies
• 1.11 – Apply Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) concepts
• 1.12 – Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program
• 2.1 – Identify and classify information and assets
• 2.2 – Establish information and asset handling requirements
• 2.3 – Provision information and assets securely
• 2.4 – Manage data lifecycle
• 2.5 – Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g., End of Life (EOL), End of Support)
• 2.6 – Determine data security controls and compliance requirements

Section 2 – Security Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Network Security

• 3.1 – Research, implement and manage engineering processes using secure design principles
• 3.2 – Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Biba, Star Model, Bell-LaPadula)
• 3.3 – Select controls based upon systems security requirements
• 3.4 – Understand security capabilities of Information Systems (IS) (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)
• 3.5 – Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
• 3.6 – Select and determine cryptographic solutions
• 3.7 – Understand methods of cryptanalytic attacks
• 3.8 – Apply security principles to site and facility design
• 3.9 – Design site and facility security controls
• 3.10 – Manage the information system lifecycle
• 4.1 – Apply secure design principles in network architectures
• 4.2 – Secure network components
• 4.3 – Implement secure communication channels according to design

Section 3 – Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• 5.1 – Control physical and logical access to assets
• 5.2 – Design identification and authentication strategy (e.g., people, devices, and services)

• 5.3 – Federated identity with a third-party service

• 5.4 – Implement and manage authorization mechanisms

• 5.5 – Manage the identity and access provisioning lifecycle

• 5.6 – Implement authentication systems

Section 4 – Security Assessment, Testing, Operations

• 6.1 – Design and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies
• 6.2 – Conduct security control testing
• 6.3 – Collect security process data (e.g., technical and administrative)
• 6.4 – Analyze test output and generate report
• 6.5 – Conduct or facilitate security audits
• 7.1 – Understand and comply with investigations
• 7.2 – Conduct logging and monitoring activities
• 7.3 – Perform Configuration Management (CM) (e.g., provisioning, baselining, automation)
• 7.4 – Apply foundational security operations concepts
• 7.5 – Apply resource protection
• 7.6 – Conduct incident management
• 7.7 – Operate and maintain detection and preventative measures
• 7.8 – Implement and support patch and vulnerability management
• 7.9 – Understand and participate in change management processes
• 7.10 – Implement recovery strategies
• 7.11 – Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) processes
• 7.12 – Test Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)
• 7.13 – Participate in Business Continuity (BC) planning and exercises
• 7.14 – Implement and manage physical security
• 7.15 – Address personnel safety and security concerns

Section 5 – Software Development Security

• 8.1 – Understand and integrate security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 8.2 – Identify and apply security controls in software development ecosystems
• 8.3 – Assess the effectiveness of software security
• 8.4 – Assess security impact of acquired software
• 8.5 – Define and apply secure coding guidelines and standards

Section 6 – “The Saturday CISSP Exam Review Session” – students may attend as day 6 and/or attend future review sessions

Day 6 of Training Camp’s CISSP program is dedicated to an intensive review session designed to reinforce key concepts and maximize exam readiness. Participants revisit all eight CISSP domains through targeted drills, practice questions, and group discussions, focusing on areas where additional clarity may be needed. The day also features simulated exam scenarios to build test-taking stamina and optimize time management strategies. By the end of the session, attendees gain a clear understanding of their strengths and areas for improvement, equipping them with the confidence needed to tackle the certification exam.

We strongly encourage students who have completed the course but have yet to take the exam to schedule an additional review session at no cost. This extra brush-up can be crucial, as testing shortly after the review session has been shown to significantly boost test scores.