Overview
The Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) is an ideal certification for participants with proven technical skills and practical, hands-on security knowledge in operational IT roles. The certification speaks for the participant’s ability to implement, monitor and administer IT infrastructure in line with the information security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability.
This course helps participants prepare for the certification examination. The course covers all the seven domains that the certification exam focuses on. In this course, participants are familiarized with all the broad spectrum of topics included in the SSCP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK).
What You'll Learn
- Implement and maintain authentication methods and access controls
- Identity management lifecycle
- Understanding code of ethics and security concepts
- Asset management and change management
- Understand the risk management and security management processes
- Operate and maintain monitoring system, and analyze the results
- Support incident lifestyle and forensic investigation
- Explore the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
- Understand cryptography and secure protocols
- Understand Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems
- Manage network access controls and network security
- Operate and configure wireless technologies
- Identify and analyze malicious code and activity
- Understand cloud security and virtual environments
Curriculum
- Implement and maintain authentication methods
- Support inter-network trust architectures
- Participate in the identity management lifecycle
- Implement access controls
- Comply with code of ethics
- Understand security concepts
- Document, implement and maintain functional security controls
- Participate in asset management
- Implement security controls and assess compliance
- Participate in change management
- Participate in security awareness and training
- Participate in physical security operations, e.g. data center assessment, badging
- Understand the risk management process
- Perform security assessment activities
- Operate and maintain monitoring systems e.g. continuous monitoring
- Analyze monitoring results
- Support incident lifecycle
- Understand and support forensic investigations
- Understand and support Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
- Understand the fundamental concepts of cryptography
- Understand the reasons and requirements for cryptography
- Understand and support secure protocols
- Understand Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems
- Understand and apply fundamental concepts of networking
- Understand network attacks and countermeasures
- Manage network access controls
- Manage network security
- Operate and configure network-based devices
- Operate and configure wireless technologies like Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi
- Identify and analyze malicious code and activity
- Implement and operate endpoint device security
- Operate and configure cloud security
- Operate and secure virtual environments
Prerequisites
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Certification
This course helps participants prepare for the certification examination. The exam details are as follows –
| Particulars | Details |
| Duration of the exam | 3 hours |
| Number of questions | 125 |
| Question format | Multiple choice questions |
| Passing grade | 700 out of 1000 points |
| Exam availability | English, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese |
The examination would evaluate the participant’s proficiency in seven domains. The weightages of these domains in the examination are as below –
| Domain | Weightage |
| Access controls | 16% |
| Security operations and administration | 15% |
| Risk identification, monitoring and analysis | 15% |
| Incident response and recovery | 13% |
| Cryptography | 10% |
| Network and communications security | 16% |
| Systems and application security | 15% |
| Total | 100% |
