• Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

The SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner) training seminar is a five day, 35 CPE course provided by Intrinsec Security an official training provider of (ISC)_. The SSCP certification is the ideal credential for those with proven technical skills and practical security knowledge in hands-on operational IT roles. It provides industry-leading confirmation of a practitioners ability to implement, monitor and administer IT infrastructure in accordance with information security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability.

The SSCP indicates a practitioners technical ability to tackle the operational demands and responsibilities of security practitioners, including authentication, security testing, intrusion detection/prevention, incident response and recovery, attacks and countermeasures, cryptography, malicious code countermeasures and more.

The CCSP session covers the 7 SSCP domains; including: (1) access controls; (2) security operations and administration; (3) risk identification monitoring, and analysis; (4) incident response and recovery; (5) cryptography; (6) network and communications security; and (7) systems and application security.

A detailed brochure can be found at: https://intrinsecsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SSCP_Brochure…

Learning Objectives

The SSCP training course prepares students to:
1. Demonstrate access controls concepts and attack methods used to defeat access control systems;
2. Demonstrate the knowledge in security operations and administration including the responsibilities, policies, standards, guidelines, procedures and security awareness;
3. Demonstrate knowledge in the various methods of data collection, including data collection, data logging, sampling and reporting and compliance check techniques;
4. Understand how to prepare a business continuity or disaster recovery plan;
5. Understand the basic concepts of cryptography including public and private key algorithms, key distribution and management, digital signatures, and public key infrastructure and certification;
6. Understand communications and network security as it relates to data and telecommunications in local area and wide area networks; and
7. Understand the concepts of malicious and mobile code, code threats, and various protection and recovery methods.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.