This course is one of four courses covering Domain 1 of the CSSLP. This course explores the topic of security policies and regulations.
Learning Objectives
- Obtain a general understanding of security policies, regulations, and compliance
- Understand the legal and privacy issues that these regulations aim to address
- Learn about a variety of security frameworks and standards
- Learn about trusted computed principles and how they underpin security frameworks
- Understand the security implications of acquiring software
Intended Audience
This course is designed for those looking to take the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification, or for anyone interested in the topics it covers.
Prerequisites
Any experience relating to information security would be advantageous, but not essential. All topics discussed are thoroughly explained and presented in a way allowing the information to be absorbed by everyone, regardless of experience within the security field.
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So let's take a look at the corresponding need for systems design and engineering, and the standards that bring those things about. Now, we have several internationally recognized standards that embody the design considerations when we talk about secure development. Some of these have been present for a number of years. Some of them are relatively recent. But all of them focus on better system design through better requirements, design engineering, build, test, and deployment. We have the ISO 15504, which has to do with the process assessment. And originally called SPICE, this lays out a Capability Maturity Model-type scale specifically targeting process evolution and its continuous improvement.
We have the well-known ISO 15408, known as the common criteria. And this is a testing and evaluation standard that is used to determine the functionality and the assurance qualities of the given product. NIST with its special publication Series 500, which is at the moment predominantly about cloud, but it has two volumes on development and code testing. Then we have the far more voluminous Series 800, which is predominantly about security engineering and technology, but also contains numerous volumes on architecture and the various standards to be employed when designing and building software. We have an industry consortium known as SAFECode, which is committed to capturing and communicating to all members practices that are picked up and proven to be well and rounded and adequate to meet the needs of secure development and deployment of systems in order to make them much more pervasive, and much more widely practiced within the profession.
Mr. Leo has been in Information System for 38 years, and an Information Security professional for over 36 years. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer, and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. His past employers include IBM, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Rockwell International. A NASA contractor for 22 years, from 1998 to 2002 he was Director of Security Engineering and Chief Security Architect for Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems, and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
Upon attaining his CISSP license in 1997, Mr. Leo joined ISC2 (a professional role) as Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee, and served in this role until 2004. During this time, he formulated and directed the effort that produced what became and remains the standard curriculum used to train CISSP candidates worldwide. He has maintained his professional standards as a professional educator and has since trained and certified nearly 8500 CISSP candidates since 1998, and nearly 2500 in HIPAA compliance certification since 2004. Mr. leo is an ISC2 Certified Instructor.