Course Description

The Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) is the ideal certification for those with proven technical skills and practical, hands-on security knowledge in operational IT roles. It provides confirmation of a practitioner’s ability to implement, monitor, and administer IT infrastructure under information security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The broad spectrum of topics included in the SSCP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) ensures its relevance across all disciplines in the field of information security. Successful candidates are competent in the following 7 domains:

• Access Controls
• Security Operations and Administration
• Risk Identification, Monitoring, and Analysis
• Incident Response and Recovery
• Cryptography
• Network and Communications Security
• Systems and Application Security

Sept. 12, 2020

Program Requirements

DeliveryOnline
Length2-4 weeks
VA ApprovedGI Bill & VET-TEC
CertificationSSCP

Objectives

  • Implement and maintain authentication methods
  • Comply with (ISC)² Code of Ethics
  • Understand security concepts
  • Document, implement and maintain functional security controls
  • Implement security controls and assess compliance
  • Understand the risk management process
  • Perform security assessment activities
  • Operate and maintain monitoring systems
  • Understand and support forensic investigations
  • Learn the fundamental concepts of cryptography and requirements for cryptography
  • Understand and support secure protocols and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems
  • Apply fundamental concepts of networking
  • Understand network attacks and countermeasures
  • Manage network access controls and network security
  • Operate and configure network-based security devices and wireless technologies
  • Identify and analyze malicious code and activity
  • Implement and operate endpoint device security
  • Operate and configure cloud security
  • Operate and secure virtual environments

Prerequisite

Candidates must have a minimum of 1-year cumulative work experience in 1 or more of the 7 domains of the SSCP CBK. A 1-year prerequisite pathway will be granted for candidates who received a degree (bachelors or masters) in a cybersecurity program.

A candidate that doesn’t have the required experience to become an SSCP may become an Associate of (ISC)² by successfully passing the SSCP examination. The Associate of (ISC)² will then have 2 years to earn the 1-year required experience.

Course Content

Domain 1: Access Controls

Domain 2: Security Operations and Administration

Domain 3: Risk Identification, monitoring, and analysis

Domain 4: Incident Response and Recovery

Domain 5: Crytograhpy

Domain 6: Network and Communications Security

Domain 7: System and Application Security