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 practitioner’s ability to implement, monitor, and administer IT infrastructure by information security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The SSCP indicates a practitioner’s 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.
SSCP complies with the stringent requirements of ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard 17024.
SSCP Course Content
The seven domains in SSCP include:
- Domain 1. Access Controls
- Domain 2. Security Operations and Administration
- Domain 3. Risk Identification, Monitoring, and Analysis
- Domain 4. Incident Response and Recovery
- Domain 5. Cryptography
- Domain 6. Network and Communications Security
- Domain 7. Systems and Application Security
