• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led

The Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification course will prepare you to pass the SSCP exam and become a Systems Security Certified Practitioner. It will provide you with in-depth coverage of the skills and concepts in the seven domains of systems security including: Access Controls, Security Operations and Administration, Risk Identification and Analysis, Incident Response and Recovery, Cryptography, and Network Security.

Learning Objectives

  • Compare access control systems and how they should be implemented to protect the system and data using the different levels of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
  • Determine working processes for management and information owners, custodians, and users to ensure proper data classifications are defined.
  • Analyze safeguards for mitigating risk and utilize risk identification, monitoring, and analysis domain identities to identify, measure, and control losses associated with adverse events.
  • Use consistent approaches and concepts in order to mitigate damages, recover business operations, and avoid critical business interruption, and emergency response and post-disaster recovery in the handling of Incident Response and Recovery.
  • Differentiate between key cryptographic concepts and how to apply them, implement secure protocols, key management concepts, key administration and validation, and Public Key Infrastructure as it applies to securing communications in the presence of third parties.
  • Identify the Networks and Communications Security needed to secure network structure, data transmission methods, transport formats, and the security measures used to maintain integrity, availability, authentication, and confidentiality of the information being transmitted.
  • Define technical and non-technical attacks and the protection need for organizations attacks including concepts in endpoint device security, cloud infrastructure security, securing big data systems, and securing virtual environments.

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):