CCISO Training With Certification

EC-Council´s CCISO Program has certified leading information security professionals around the world. A core group of high-level information security executives, the CCISO Advisory Board, contributed by forming the foundation of the program and outlining the content that would be covered by the exam, body of knowledge, and training.

Some members of the Board contributed as authors, others as exam writers, others as quality assurance checks, and still others as trainers.

Each segment of the program was developed with the aspiring CISO in mind and looks to transfer the knowledge of seasoned professionals to the next generation in the areas that are most critical in the development and maintenance of a successful information security program.

Why Should You Consider the CCISO Program?

The CCISO Certification is an industry-leading program that recognizes the real-world experience necessary to succeed at the highest executive levels of information security.

Bringing together all the components required for a C-Level position, the CCISO program combines audit management, governance, IS controls, human capital management, strategic program development, and the financial expertise vital to leading a highly successful IS program.

Material in the CCISO Program assumes a high-level understanding of technical topics and doesn´t spend much time on strictly technical information, but rather on the application of technical knowledge to an information security executive´s day-to-day work.

The CCISO aims to bridge the gap between the executive management knowledge that CISOs need and the technical knowledge that many aspiring CISOs have. This can be a crucial gap as a practitioner endeavours to move from mid-management to upper, executive management roles.

Much of this is traditionally learned as on the job training, but the CCISO Training Program can be the key to a successful transition to the highest ranks of information security management.

CCISO Domain Details:

• CCISOs are certified in the knowledge of and experience in the following CCISO Domains:
• Domain 1: Governance (Policy, Legal & Compliance)
• Qualifying areas under Domain 1 include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Define, implement, manage and maintain an information security governance program that includes leadership, organizational structures and processes.
• Align information security governance framework with organizational goals and governance, i.e., leadership style, philosophy, values, standards and policies.
• Establish information security management structure.
• Establish a framework for information security governance monitoring (considering cost/benefits analyses of controls and ROI).
• Understand standards, procedures, directives, policies, regulations, and legal issues that affect the information security program.
• Understand the enterprise information security compliance program and manage the compliance team.
• Analyze all the external laws, regulations, standards, and best practices applicable to the organization.
• Understand the various provisions of the laws that affect the organizational security such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA], Federal Information Security
• Management Act [FISMA], Clinger-Cohen Act, Privacy Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.
• Be familiar with the different standards such as ISO 27000 series, Federal Information Processing Standards [FIPS].
• Understand the federal and organization specific published documents to manage operations in a computing environment.
• Assess the major enterprise risk factors for compliance.
• Coordinate the application of information security strategies, plans, policies, and procedures to reduce regulatory risk.
• Understand the importance of regulatory information security organizations and appropriate industry groups, forums, and stakeholders.
• Understand the information security changes, trends, and best practices.
• Manage enterprise compliance program controls.
• Understand the information security compliance process and procedures.
• Compile, analyze, and report compliance programs.
• Understand the compliance auditing and certification programs.
• Follow organizational ethics.
• Domain 2: IS Management Controls and Auditing Management
• Qualifying areas under Domain 2 include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Information Security Management Controls:
• Identify the organization’s operational process and objectives as well as risk tolerance level.
• Design information systems controls in alignment with the operational needs and goals and conduct testing prior to implementation to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify and select the resources required to effectively implement and maintain information systems controls. Such resources can include human capital, information, infrastructure, and architecture (e.g., platforms, operating systems, networks, databases, applications).
• Supervise the information systems control process to ensure timely implementation in accordance with the outlined budget and scope, and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Design and implement information systems controls to mitigate risk. Monitor and document the information systems control performance in meeting organizational objectives by identifying and measuring metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Design and conduct testing of information security controls to ensure effectiveness, discover deficiencies and ensure alignment with organization’s policies, standards and procedures.
• Design and implement processes to appropriately remediate deficiencies and evaluate problem management practices to ensure that errors are recorded, analyzed and resolved in a timely manner.
• Assess and implement tools and techniques to automate information systems control processes.
• Produce information systems control status reports to ensure that the processes for information systems operations, maintenance and support meet the organization’s strategies and objectives, and share with relevant stakeholders to support executive decision-making.
• Auditing Management :
• Understand the IT audit process and be familiar with IT audit standards.
• Apply information systems audit principles, skills and techniques in reviewing and testing information systems technology and applications to design and implement a thorough risk-based IT audit strategy.
• Execute the audit process in accordance with established standards and interpret results against defined criteria to ensure that the information systems are protected, controlled and effective in supporting organization’s objectives.
• Effectively evaluate audit results, weighing the relevancy, accuracy, and perspective of conclusions against the accumulated audit evidence.
• Assess the exposures resulting from ineffective or missing control practices and formulate a practical and cost-effective plan to improve those areas.
• Develop an IT audit documentation process and share reports with relevant stakeholders as the basis for decision-making.
• Ensure that the necessary changes based on the audit findings are effectively implemented in a timely manner.
• Domain 3: Management − Projects and Operations (Projects, Technology & Operations)
• Qualifying areas under Domain 3 include (but are not limited to) the following:
• For each information systems project develop a clear project scope statement in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Define activities needed to successfully execute the information systems program, estimate activity duration, and develop a schedule and staffing plan.
• Develop, manage and monitor the information systems program budget, estimate and control costs of individual projects.
• Identify, negotiate, acquire and manage the resources needed for successful design and implementation of the information systems program (e.g., people, infrastructure, and architecture).
• Acquire, develop and manage information security project team.
• Assign clear information security personnel job functions and provide continuous training to ensure effective performance and accountability.
• Direct information security personnel and establish communications, and team activities, between the information systems team and other security-related personnel (e.g., technical support, incident management, security engineering).
• Resolve personnel and teamwork issues within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Identify, negotiate and manage vendor agreement and communication.
• Participate with vendors and stakeholders to review/assess recommended solutions; identify incompatibilities, challenges, or issues with proposed solutions.
• Evaluate the project management practices and controls to determine whether business requirements are achieved in a cost-effective manner while managing risks to the organization.
• Develop a plan to continuously measure the effectiveness of the information systems projects to ensure optimal system performance.
• Identify stakeholders, manage stakeholders´ expectations and communicate effectively to report progress and performance.
• Ensure that necessary changes and improvements to the information systems processes are implemented as required.
• Domain 4: Information Security Core Competencies
• Qualifying areas under Domain 4 include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Access Control
• Identify the criteria for mandatory and discretionary access control, understand the different factors that help in implementation of access controls and design an access control plan.
• Implement and manage an access control plan in alignment with the basic principles that govern the access control systems such as need-to-know.
• Identify different access control systems such as ID cards and biometrics.
• Understand the importance of warning banners for implementing access rules.
• Develop procedures to ensure system users are aware of their IA responsibilities before granting access to the information systems.
• Social Engineering, Phishing Attacks, Identity Theft
• Understand various social engineering concepts and their role in insider attacks and develop best practices to counter social engineering attacks.
• Design a response plan to identity theft incidences.
• Identify and design a plan to overcome phishing attacks.
• Physical Security
• Identify standards, procedures, directives, policies, regulations and laws for physical security.
• Determine the value of physical assets and the impact if unavailable.
• Identify resources needed to effectively implement a physical security plan.
• Design, implement and manage a coherent, coordinated, and holistic physical security plan to ensure overall organizational security.
• Establish objectives for personnel security to ensure alignment with overall security goals for the enterprise.
• Design and manage the physical security audit and update issues.
• Establish a physical security performance measurement system.
• Risk Management
• Identify the risk mitigation and risk treatment processes and understand the concept of acceptable risk.
• Identify resource requirements for risk management plan implementation.
• Design a systematic and structured risk assessment process and establish, in coordination with stakeholders, an IT security risk management program based on standards and procedures and ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Develop, coordinate and manage risk management teams.
• Establish relationships between the incident response team and other groups, both internal (e.g., legal department) and external (e.g., law enforcement agencies, vendors, and public relations professionals)
• Develop an incident management measurement program and manage the risk management tools and techniques.
• Understand the residual risk in the information infrastructure.
• Assess threats and vulnerabilities to identify security risks, and regularly update applicable security controls.
• Identify changes to risk management policies and processes and ensure the risk management program remains current with the emerging risk and threat environment and in alignment with the organizational goals and objectives.
• Determine if security controls and processes are adequately integrated into the investment planning process based on IT portfolio and security reporting.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
• Develop, implement and monitor business continuity plans in case of disruptive events and ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Define the scope of the enterprise continuity of operations program to address business continuity, business recovery, contingency planning, and disaster recovery/related activities.
• Identify the resources and roles of different stakeholders in business continuity programs.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions and consequently design emergency delegations of authority, orders of succession for key positions, the enterprise continuity of operations organizational structure and staffing model.
• Direct contingency planning, operations, and programs to manage risk.
• Understand the importance of lessons learned from test, training and exercise, and crisis events.
• Design documentation process as part of the continuity of operations program.
• Design and execute a testing and updating plan for the continuity of operations program.
• Understand the importance of integration of IA requirements into the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).
• Identify the measures to increase the level of emergency preparedness such as backup and recovery solutions and design standard operating procedures for implementation during disasters.
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