CSSLP Certification Boot Camp
Our CSSLP Certification Boot Camp offers an in-depth review of secure software development and industry best practices, combined with our top rated exam preparation to help you succeed in earning your CSSLP certification.
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What is CSSLP Certification?
The Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) is a prestigious certification offered by ISC², designed specifically for software professionals involved in every phase of the secure software development lifecycle (SDLC). It serves as a comprehensive validation of expertise in incorporating security best practices throughout the entire software development process.
Obtaining the CSSLP certification not only enhances an individual’s knowledge of secure software development but also aligns with important regulatory and industry standards. Specifically, passing the CSSLP Certification Exam fulfills the requirements of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 8140/8570.01 for the Information Assurance Security Architect/Engineer (IASAE) Level-I and IASAE Level-II roles. This means CSSLP-certified professionals are recognized as meeting the stringent cybersecurity qualifications necessary to work in high-level DoD information assurance and security architecture positions, making them highly valuable in both government and private sectors.
Why take a CSSLP Training Class?
Taking an instructor-led class to prepare for the CSSLP certification offers a structured, interactive, and guided approach that enhances learning and maximizes the likelihood of success on the exam. With expert instructors, real-world applications, personalized feedback, and a supportive learning environment, it’s one of the most effective ways to master the material and achieve your certification goals.
There are several compelling reasons why someone aiming to obtain the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification should consider taking an instructor-led class:
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Structured Learning Path
An instructor-led course provides a clear and structured learning path, guiding you through all the CSSLP domains in an organized and logical sequence. This ensures that you cover every key concept without missing important information, something that can happen with self-study.
Expert Guidance
In an instructor-led class, you benefit from the expertise of certified professionals who have real-world experience in the field of software security. They can offer invaluable insights, tips, and best practices that go beyond what’s in the textbook. Their practical knowledge can help clarify complex topics and provide a deeper understanding of security concepts and their applications in the software development lifecycle.
Interactive Learning
Instructor-led courses provide a more interactive experience. You can ask questions in real-time, engage in discussions, and participate in hands-on activities or case studies that simulate real-world challenges. This level of engagement helps solidify your understanding of the material and often leads to better retention.
Personalized Feedback
With an instructor, you can receive personalized feedback on your progress. Whether it’s specific questions about the material or a deeper explanation of challenging concepts, an instructor can offer tailored support to address your learning needs, which is difficult to achieve in self-study environments.
Exam Prep Tips
Instructors often provide valuable insights into the CSSLP exam format and common pitfalls. They can share exam-taking strategies, tips for time management, and practice questions to help you feel more confident when sitting for the exam. Knowing what to expect and how to approach the exam can greatly enhance your chances of passing on the first attempt.
Accountability & Motivation
Committing to an instructor-led class ensures you stay on track with your study schedule. Unlike self-paced learning, where procrastination can be a challenge, an instructor-led course holds you accountable to complete the necessary work in a timely manner, keeping you focused and motivated.
Networking Opportunities
Joining an instructor-led course allows you to connect with peers who share similar goals and interests. This network of fellow learners can become a valuable resource for exchanging ideas, discussing industry trends, and even forming study groups. Building a professional network in this space can open doors to future career opportunities as well.
Real-World Scenarios
Instructor-led classes often incorporate real-world scenarios, case studies, and simulations that allow you to apply the concepts you are learning to practical situations. This hands-on experience is crucial for understanding how to implement secure software development practices in actual work environments.
Efficient Learning
While self-study requires significant time and discipline to sift through and absorb vast amounts of material, an instructor-led course streamlines the process. Instructors can highlight critical information, help you prioritize what’s most important, and provide concise explanations that save you time in the long run.
Who Can Take This CSSLP Training?
CSSLP certification training is a higher-level accreditation, intended for IT professionals with several years’ experience. In order to qualify for full CSSLP certification you must pass the exam and prove you have at least four years paid experience working as a software development lifecycle professional. The CSSLP is ideally suited to professionals working in positions such as, but not limited to:
- Software Architect
- Software Engineer
- Software Developer
- Application Security Specialist
- Software Program Manager
- Quality Assurance Tester
- Penetration Tester
- Software Procurement Analyst
- Project Manager
- Security Manager
- IT Director/Manager
CSSLP Certification Course Syllabus
Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional Course Outline
Duration: 5 Days
Course Description:
This course provides a comprehensive review of secure software development principles and practices aligned with the CSSLP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). The program integrates industry best practices with hands-on training and exam preparation to equip participants with the skills needed to excel in the CSSLP exam.
Course Objectives:
- Develop a thorough understanding of secure software lifecycle management.
- Apply security best practices across all phases of software development.
- Recognize and mitigate common software vulnerabilities.
- Prepare for the CSSLP exam with focused content and practice questi
Secure Software Concepts Domain
- Define core security objectives for software development.
- Describe the information security triad and explain the main mechanisms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- Characterize the relationship between information security and data privacy.
- Describe accountability, auditing, and logging in the context of software security.
- Explain non-repudiation, digital signatures, benefits of code signing, and blockchain.
- Understand the foundational concepts behind security design principles with respect to secure software development.
Secure Software Lifecycle and Risk Management Domain
- Understand and describe OWASP’s Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) and Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM).
- Define and recognize security configuration standards and benchmarks.
- Understand and describe security-focused configuration management processes.
- Recognize security milestones.
- Explain and illustrate the incorporation of software security practices into the SDLC processes.
- Discuss security in predictive and adaptive planning for software development.
- Describe DevOps and DevSecOps.
- Describe System Security Plan.
- Recognize security-relevant documentation.
- Evaluate metrics in software development.
- Recognize attack surface evaluation for measuring security in software.
- Describe software decommissioning, end-of-life policy, and processes.
- Discuss data disposition.
- Explain information system continuous monitoring (ISCM).
- Describe security information event management (SIEM).
- Recognize risk management terminology and describe the risk management process.
- Explain regulations and legal aspects pertaining to intellectual properties and security breaches.
- Discuss architectural risk assessment.
- Describe operational risks relevant to integration and deployment environments.
- Recognize the importance of personnel training.
- Describe security champions and discuss the importance of security education and guidance.
- Explain retrospectives and continuous improvement in Agile development environments.
- Discuss lessons learned with respect to the processes used to build software.
Secure Software Requirements Domain
- Discuss requirements management and identify sources for software security requirements.
- Recognize functional and nonfunctional requirements and explain the importance of security-focused stories in SCRUM/SCRUM-like methodologies.
- Analyze misuse/abuse cases and recognize their relevance to known attack patterns.
- Describe Security Requirements Traceability Matrix (STRM) and discuss how security requirements flow down to suppliers/providers.
- Analyze security policies and their supporting elements as internal sources for security requirements.
- Explain compliance requirements and recognize laws, regulations, and industry standards as external sources for security requirements.
- Discuss security standards and frameworks.
- Describe data governance, explain data ownership, and recognize relevant roles and responsibilities.
- Describe data classification and explain security labeling and marking.
- Recognize data types, structured and unstructured.
- Describe the data lifecycle and explain the process for secure data retention and destruction.
- Discuss privacy risk, recognize privacy laws and regulations, and explain the requirements for safeguarding personal information.
- Discuss data anonymization and enumerate various approaches for anonymization.
- Explain user consent, data retention, and data disposition in the context of privacy.
- Recognize implications of cross-border data transfer and restrictions for the transfer of personal data.
Secure Software Architecture and Design Domain
- Understand common threats; describe the threat modeling process, tools, and methodologies, and explain the process of attack surface evaluation and management.
- Discuss threat intelligence and describe the sources for cyber threat information.
- Discuss the process of identification and prioritization of security controls and describe security properties and constraints on the design and constraints imposed by the deployment environment.
- Describe various architectures and discuss their security-relevant aspects.
- Describe pervasive computing and IoT, discuss various contactless technologies and discuss their security and privacy aspects.
- Explain embedded software and discuss the update challenge and discuss Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and microcontroller security.
- Explain cloud computing, service models, and deployment models, and describe the shared security responsibility model. Discuss mobile applications security.
- Discuss hardware platform concerns, side channel mitigation, speculative execution mitigation, and Hardware Security Modules (HSM).
- Explain cognitive computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Discuss control systems and their applications in various areas and safety criticality aspects.
- Evaluate security criteria of interfaces, out-of-band management, and log interfaces.
- Understand upstream and downstream dependencies, protocol design choices, and their security ramifications.
- Describe various authentication and authorization mechanisms; explain credential management and the digital certificate standard.
- Discuss flow controls and data loss prevention; compare and contrast virtual machines and containers.
- Explain the trusted computing base (TCB) and the trusted platform module (TPM).
- Discuss database security, programming language environment, and operating system controls and services.
- Discuss secure architecture and secure design principles, and explain secure design patterns.
- Explain verification of the design, formal and informal secure code reviews, and the code inspection process.
Secure Software Implementation Domain
- Explain the need for establishing and enforcing secure coding standards.
- Describe different approaches for implementing security in managed applications.
- Describe common flaws in software and corresponding mitigation strategies.
- Discuss input validation, output encoding, authentication, session management, access control, cryptographic practices, error and exception management practices, and logging.
- Explain type safety, memory management, and isolation.
- Discuss cryptography, applications to transit and storage, cryptographic agility, cryptographic libraries, and encryption algorithm selection.
- Explain access control, trust zones, and function permissions.
- Explain vulnerability databases and lists.
- Discuss Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE), and Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC).
- Enumerate OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks.
- Describe categorization of controls by type and by function.
- Describe controls to prevent common web application vulnerabilities.
- Describe OWASP Proactive Controls and critical focus areas around building secure software.
- Evaluate the risks associated with using third-party and open-source components and libraries.
- Describe Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and open source management.
- Discuss OWASP Dependency Check and Dependency Track.
- Discuss API integration and evaluate the security aspects.
- Describe system-of-systems.
- Describe the build process, version control, and safeguards used to ensure integrity.
- Discuss anti-tampering techniques as part of software assurance.
- Explain the relation of compiler switches and warnings to the enhancement of security.
What You’ll Learn:
This course covers secure software development with the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle (CSSLP) and its domains. Topics include identifying security requirements, secure SDLC, manual testing, unit testing, functional testing, acceptance testing, and security testing, code review, and test automation. Students learn about security vulnerabilities, software testing, and source code. The course covers IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing tools, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, and penetration testing to help prepare for the CSSLP certification exam.
What’s Included in Our Boot Camp?
- 5 Days of intense CSSLP Training
- Instruction by a High-Level Certified CSSLP Expert
- CSSLP Courseware – Continually Updated
- CSSLP Practice Questions & Quizzes
- In depth conversation with other learners in the class
- Post course stoplight assessment
- CISSP exam pass guarantee
The Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional exam is tough.
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No matter what you may read, the truth is that there is no easy path when it comes to CSSLP exam readiness. Most students need 3-6 weeks of study before they’re ready to sit for the exam. What’s true of most, of course, isn’t true for all: some applicants will fall onto either side of that average, and a full 50% will never sit for the exam at all.
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Why Choose Us for Your CSSLP Boot Camp Training?
Our 5-Day CSSLP Certification training seminar is delivered by a world-class instructor, uses updated courseware and hands-on exercises to create an engaging interactive learning environment for participants – wherever you are located. Designed to meet the stringent requirements of modern software security, this comprehensive course delves into the intricacies of the secure software development lifecycle. Through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical applications, participants will gain a deep understanding of industry best practices, enabling them to design, develop, and maintain secure software systems effectively.
We blend proven learning concepts with simple memorization techniques to make sure you are able to keep the vast amount of information we cover organized and memorable. Our CSSLP Boot Camp is an accelerated, guaranteed path to achieving your CSSLP certification.
Here are a few more key reasons to join our class:
Upcoming CSSLP Training Class Schedule
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Central Time | Live - Online | Remote - From Anywhere | Dec 16th - Dec 20th | $3,599 | |
Central Time | Live - Online | Remote - From Anywhere | Jan 13th - Jan 17th | $3,599 | |
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Benefits of Attending a CISSP Boot Camp
- Achieve Your Goal
- Retain More Information
- Stay Focused
- Connect Real World Experience
- Have Dedicated Support
It doesn’t matter what you’re preparing for; one thing is always true: it’s easier to plan it than to do it. When you spend your days making crucial decisions, your well-laid plans often fall victim to diminished self-discipline by nightfall. Sure, you know you should be studying, but that knowledge doesn’t make it any easier to summon the motivation to do it night after night. An accelerated CSSLP Certification Boot Camp takes the temptation to postpone test prep off of the table and, instead, gives you space to immerse yourself in the materials. Our courses are designed to remove the distractions of your everyday life so you can fully focus your time and attention on the coursework and be exam-ready in less time than if you’d studied on your own
Our CSSLP Bootcamp gives you more than mere exposure to the fundamentals and concepts on the test. It provides a focused educational experience with a rigorous schedule. Throughout the course, you’ll talk through the concepts and situations with your instructor and peers so you can ground your learning and recall it when you need it.
Interacting with an expert instructor who can translate concepts into practical terms helps to ensure you grasp the content and lets you test your understanding. Studying with a group of your peers in a classroom environment can also help build and maintain your motivation for the exam. It’s easy to get distracted and lose focus when you’re alone at your desk with a book. Studying with others who share your goals can help keep you accountable and sustain or stimulate determination.
Your years of practical experience are the most valuable thing you bring to your role. Without them, you wouldn’t be qualified to sit for the CSSLP exam in the first place. Distilling what you know from doing into the foundations and principles on the CSSLP exam, however, can challenge even the most experienced project managers. Your CSSLP Certification Training Instructor will help you connect your experience to the exam materials, putting what you’ve learned on the job into context so you can apply it on the exam.
Your CSSLP Certified trainer is an expert project manager with in depth understanding of the training materials but also in exam readiness. Every student who enrolls in and completes the Certification Academy CSSLP Boot Camp receives one-on-one guidance from their trainer and an individualized learning plan based on their current proficiency and progress towards their education requirements.
CSSLP Certification Frequently Asked Questions
What is the CSSLP experience waiver and how does it work?
If you have a security-related degree from an accredited college or institution or has additional (ISC)2 credentials from their approved list the participant may be able to waive one of the five years of the required experience.
What do I need to do to maintain certification?
How much does the CSSLP certification exam cost?
The CSSLP exam fee is $599. If you need to rescheduling your exam the fee is $50. If you decide to cancel your exam there is a $100 fee. Certification Academy students receive an exam voucher as a part of their course.
One Last Note…
We stand behind our course and methodology. We want you to take the CISSP exam with the confidence and assurance that your investment in our CSSLP Boot Camp has paid off. Deciding to enroll in a CSSLP Exam Prep class isn’t a decision you should make without having all of the information. If you can’t find the answers to your questions here, send us an email or give us a call. Our team is always happy to answer questions or provide additional information, whether you’re a student of ours or not.