CISSP

CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional

The vendor-neutral CISSP certification is the ideal credential for those with proven deep technical and managerial competence, skills, experience, and credibility to design, engineer, implement, and manage their overall information security program to protect organizations from growing sophisticated attacks.

The CISSP curriculum covers subject matter in a variety of Information Security topics. The CISSP examination is based on what the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC) terms the Common Body of Knowledge (or CBK). According to (ISC), "the CISSP CBK is a taxonomy -- a collection of topics relevant to information security professionals around the world. The CISSP CBK establishes a common framework of information security terms and principles that allow information security professionals worldwide to discuss, debate and resolve matters pertaining to the profession with a common understanding."

The CISSP CBK is fundamentally based on the CIA triad, the core information security and assurance tenets: confidentiality, integrity and availability, and attempts to balance the three across ten areas of interest, which are also called domains. The ten CBK domains are:

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