• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led

The (ISC)²® Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP®) training provides a comprehensive review of the knowledge required to incorporate security practices –authentication, authorization, and auditing –into each phase of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), from software design and implementation to testing and deployment. This training course will help students review and refresh their knowledge and identify areas they need to study for the CSSLP exam. Content aligns with and comprehensively covers the eight domains of the (ISC)² CSSLP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®).

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the core concepts of software security and the foundational principles that drive construction of resilient software.
  • Recognize the importance of security requirements and understand the techniques for elicitation and specification of software security requirements.
  • Recognize privacy requirements and their impact on the selection of safeguards and countermeasures.
  • Understand threat modeling, attack surface evaluation, and architectural risk assessment. Recognize secure design principles and patterns.
  • Understand secure coding practices, common application vulnerabilities and their mitigation strategies.
  • Understand various code analysis techniques using automated and manual techniques.
  • Recognize risks of third-party software components and libraries, malicious code and mitigation strategies.
  • Describe security testing strategy and techniques and identify functional and non-functional testing methods.
  • Describe defect tracking and risk scoring methods. Identify secure software methodologies, standards and frameworks.
  • Understand Governance, Risk, and Compliance and recognize regulations and compliance requirements.
  • Describe risks during deployment and understand security relevant issues during the operations and maintenance phase of the lifecycle.
  • Understand vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis. Recognize software supply chain risks and attacks.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):