CISSP Exam Cram, 5th Edition

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• Fully reflects the major the changes in the new CISSP exam
• Designed to help candidates rapidly assess where they stand--and quickly master what they need to learn
• Includes test-taking strategies, time-saving tips, Exam Notes, and two sample exams delivered by the state-of-the-art PCPT test engine

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• Copyright 2022
• Dimensions: 6" x 9"
• Pages: 800
• Edition: 5th

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-13-741955-4
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-741955-5

CISSP Exam Cram, Fifth Edition is the perfect study guide to help you pass the latest update to the eight-domain version of the CISSP exam. It offers knowledge and practice questions for every exam topic, with new coverage of asset retention, secure provisioning, crypto attacks, machine learning tools, threat hunting, risk-based access control, zero trust, SAML, SOAR, CASB, securing microservices, containers, managed services, and more.

Covers the critical information you'll need to score higher on your CISSP exam!

• Understand Security & Risk Management: ethics, security concepts, governance, compliance, law/regulation, policies/procedures, threat models, supply chain risk, awareness training, and more
• Ensure Secure Assets: identify/classify information and assets; handling requirements, resource provisioning, data lifecycles, retention
• Review Security Architecture & Engineering: secure processes and principles, security models and controls, system capabilities, vulnerability assessment/mitigation, crypto attacks/solutions, site/facility design and controls
• Improve Communication & Network Security: secure network architectures, components, and channels
• Strengthen Identity & Access Management (IAM): physical/logical access control, identification, authentication, federated identity services, authorization, identity/access provisioning
• Enhance Security Assessment & Testing: design/validate assessment, test, and audit strategies; test controls; collect process data; evaluate and report test results; conduct or support audits
• Manage Security Operations: investigations, logs, monitoring, resource protection, incident management, detection/prevention; configuration, patches, vulnerabilities, and change
• management; DR/BC, physical and personnel security, and more

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About the Premium Edition eBook
CISSP Exam Cram, 5th Edition, focuses specifically on the objectives for the CISSP exam introduced by (ISC)² in May 2021. It contains new or updated coverage of topics including asset retention, secure provisioning, crypto attacks, machine learning tools, threat hunting, risk-based access control, zero trust, SAML, SOAR, securing microservices, containers, and managed services, and more.

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Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The study guide helps you master all the topics on all eight domains of the (ISC)² CISSP exam, including:

• Security and Risk Management
• Asset Security
• Security Architecture and Engineering
• Communication and Network Security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Security Assessment and Testing
• Security Operations
• Software Development Security

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Table of Contents

   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 1: The CISSP Certification Exam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   Assessing Exam Readiness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   Exam Topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   Taking the Exam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
   Examples of CISSP Test Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   Answer to Multiple-Choice Question.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
   Answer to Drag and Drop Question.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
   Answer to Hotspot Question.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
   Question-Handling Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   Mastering the Inner Game.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CHAPTER 2: Understanding Asset Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Basic Security Principles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Data Management: Determining and Maintaining Ownership.. . . . . . . 32
   Data Standards.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
   Data Security, Protection, Sharing, and Dissemination.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
   Classifying Information and Supporting Asset Classification.. . . . . . . . . 47
   Asset Management and Governance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
   Determining Data Security Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CHAPTER 3: Security and Risk Management... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
   Security Governance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
   U.S. Legal System and Laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
   International Legal Systems and Laws.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
   Global Legal and Regulatory Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
   Risk Management Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
   Selecting Countermeasures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
   Threat Modeling Concepts and Methodologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
   Managing Risk with the Supply Chain and Third Parties.. . . . . . . . . . . 110
   Identifying and Prioritizing Business Continuity
   Requirements Based on Risk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
   Developing and Implementing Security Policy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
   Types of Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
   Implementing Personnel Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
   Security Education, Training, and Awareness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
   Professional Ethics Training and Awareness.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
CHAPTER 4: Security Architecture and Engineering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
   Secure Design Guidelines and Governance Principles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
   Fundamental Concepts of Security Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
   Security Architecture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
   Common Formal Security Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
   Product Security Evaluation Models.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
   System Validation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
   Vulnerabilities of Security Architectures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
   Cryptography.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
   Algorithms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
   Cipher Types and Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
   Symmetric Encryption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
   Asymmetric Encryption.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
   Hybrid Encryption.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
   Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
   Integrity and Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
   Cryptographic Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
   Site and Facility Security Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
CHAPTER 5: Communications and Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
   Secure Network Design.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
   Network Models and Standards.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
   TCP/IP.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
   LANs and Their Components.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
   Communication Standards.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
   Network Equipment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
   Routing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
   WANs and Their Components.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
   Cloud Computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
   Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
   Securing Email Communications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
   Securing Voice and Wireless Communications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
   Securing TCP/IP with Cryptographic Solutions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
   Network Access Control Devices.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
   Remote Access.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
   Message Privacy and Multimedia Collaboration.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
CHAPTER 6: Identity and Access Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
   Perimeter Physical Control Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
   Employee Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
   Identification, Authentication, and Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
   Single Sign-On (SSO).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
   Authorization and Access Control Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
   Centralized and Decentralized Access Control Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
   Audits and Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
   Suggesting Reading and Resources.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
CHAPTER 7: Security Assessment and Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
   Security Assessments and Penetration Test Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
   Test Techniques and Methods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
   Security Threats and Vulnerabilities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
   Network Security Threats and Attack Techniques.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
   Access Control Threats and Attack Techniques.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
   Social-Based Threats and Attack Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
   Malicious Software Threats and Attack Techniques.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
   Investigating Computer Crime.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
   Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
   Investigations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
CHAPTER 8: Security Operations... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
   Foundational Security Operations Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
   Resource Protection.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
   Telecommunication Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
   System Resilience, Fault Tolerance, and Recovery Controls.. . . . . . . . . 486
   Monitoring and Auditing Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
   Perimeter Security Controls and Risks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
   Facility Concerns and Requirements.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
   Environmental Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
   Electrical Power.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
   Equipment Lifecycle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
   Fire Prevention, Detection, and Suppression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
   Alarm Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
   Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
   Investigations and Incidents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
   Digital Forensics, Tools, Tactics, and Procedures.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
   The Disaster Recovery Lifecycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
CHAPTER 9: Software Development Security... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
   Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
   Integrating Security into the Development Lifecycle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
   Development Methodologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
   Change Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
   Database Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
   Programming Languages, Secure Coding Guidelines, and Standards.. . . 588
   Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
   Answers to Exam Prep Questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
   Need to Know More?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Practice Exam I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Practice Exam II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
Answers to Practice Exam I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Answers to Practice Exam II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Glossary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667


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