Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Certification Training

CSSLP Certification

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CSSLP Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional Training
Core security goals of software development and the relationship of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Introduction of security practices into SDLC by OWASP.
Security design principles and challenges associated with cloud computing, mobile applications, and embedded systems.
Adopted coding standards, cryptographic techniques and some of the most common types of software defects with measures.

Course Overview

Find ways to apply security during development with Vinsys's Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) training. This immensely popular course familiarises you with the concept, process, and practical implementation/administration of safe and secure software. It enables you to protect applications throughout their life cycle as they adapt to the emerging threat cybersecurity landscape.
With the help of the leading industry specialists, you will discover more about secure coding, vulnerabilities, risks, and regulations. Our training is an applied approach through which you gain skills in creating secure software systems that conform to world security standards. Through interactive labs and comprehensive case studies, you will be confident in your ability to take on complex security challenges.
Whether you are looking to upskill or aim for career excellence, Vinsys' CSSLP Certification Training sets the stage for your professional growth. We combine innovative teaching methods with a learner-focused approach, making it easier to translate knowledge into actionable solutions. Here are your opportunities to become the head and the driving force of the secure software development movement to make the digital world safer!
 

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Course Objectives

With CSSLP Certification Training, Vinsys offers an understanding of how to obtain the appropriate, develop, execute, and sustain secure software. This course will ensure an understanding of the best practices for safe software design, development, and management.
Key objectives include:

  • Understanding principles of secure software construction and resilience.
  • Learning security frameworks, standards, and risk management strategies.
  • Exploring secure design methodologies and best practices.
  • Applying data privacy, compliance, and legal security requirements.
  • Developing and measuring security metrics to enhance software reliability.
  • Risk management using misuse and abuse case analysis.
     

Target Audience

The Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Certification Training is meant for IT personnel who wish to improve his/her understanding, competency and expertise on secure software development and its life cycle. It targets:

  • Project Managers aiming to integrate security into project workflows.
  • Quality Assurance Testers striving to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
  • IT Security Professionals focusing on implementing robust software security practices.
  • Software Developers seeking to build secure and resilient applications.
  • System Administrators aiming to safeguard infrastructure and networks.
  • Penetration Testers working to identify and resolve software vulnerabilities.
  • Application Programmers enhancing security in application design.
  • Software Architects aiming to develop secure frameworks and system designs.
     

Eligibility Criteria

To enrol in the prestigious CSSLP certification, candidates must meet the following requirements:
Experience Requirements:

  • Have four years or more full-time work experience in at least one or a combination of the eight areas found in the (ISC)² CSSLP Common Body of Knowledge.
  • Alternatively, have 3 years of direct full-time experience specifically in secure software lifecycle processes.

Core Domains:

  • Secure Software Concepts
  • Secure Software Requirements
  • Secure Software Architecture and Design
  • Secure Software Implementation
  • Secure Software Testing
  • Secure Software Lifecycle Management
  • Secure Software Deployment, Operations, Maintenance
  • Secure Software Supply Chain

All of these preconditions indicate that candidates are interested in and well-versed in secure software development practices.
 

Course Outline

Module 1: 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.
  • Characterise the relationship between information security and data privacy.
  • Describe accountability, auditing, and logging in the context of software security.
  • Explain non-repudiation, digital signatures, the benefits of code signing, and blockchain.
  • Understand the foundational concepts behind security design principles concerning secure software development.
     

Module 2: 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 recognise security configuration standards and benchmarks.
  • Understand and describe security-focused configuration management processes.
  • Recognise 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 the System Security Plan.
  • Recognise security-relevant documentation.
  • Evaluate metrics in software development.
  • Recognise 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).
  • Recognise risk management terminology and describe the risk management process.
  • Explain regulations and legal aspects about intellectual properties and security breaches.
  • Discuss architectural risk assessment.
  • Describe operational risks relevant to the integration and deployment environment.
  • Recognise 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 concerning the processes used to build software.
     

Module 3: Secure Software Requirements Domain

  • Discuss requirements management and identify sources for software security requirements.
  • Recognise functional and non-functional requirements and explain the importance of security-focused stories in SCRUM/SCRUM-like methodologies.
  • Analyse misuse/abuse cases and recognise their relevance to known attack patterns.
  • Describe the Security Requirements Traceability Matrix (STRM) and discuss how security requirements flow down to suppliers/providers.
  • Analyse security policies and their supporting elements as internal sources for security requirements.
  • Explain compliance requirements and recognise laws, regulations, and industry standards as external sources for security requirements.
  • Discuss security standards and frameworks.
  • Describe data governance, explain data ownership, and recognise relevant roles and responsibilities.
  • Describe data classification and explain security labelling and marking.
  • Recognise data types, structured and unstructured.
  • Describe the data lifecycle and explain the process for secure data retention and destruction.
  • Discuss privacy risks, recognise privacy laws and regulations, and explain the requirements for safeguarding personal information.
  • Discuss data anonymisation and enumerate various approaches for anonymisation.
  • Explain user consent, data retention, and data disposition in the context of privacy.
  • Recognise implications of cross-border data transfer and restrictions for the transfer of personal data.
     

Module 4: Secure Software Architecture and Design Domain

  • Understand common threats; describe the threat modelling 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 prioritisation 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 application 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 authorisation 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.
     

Module 5: 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 sones, 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 the categorisation 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.
     

Module 6: Secure Software Testing Domain

  • Explain functional and non-functional security testing, its purpose and the phases in penetration testing fussing, and its variations and limitations.
  • Explain vulnerability scanning and content scanning.
  • Discuss simulation, understand configuration drifts in development environments and describe real user monitoring and synthetic monitoring.
  • Describe fault injection, stress testing, and break testing.
  • Describe various types of functional testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
  • Describe various types of non-functional testing, including scalability, interoperability, and performance testing.
  • Describe cryptographic validation and explain pseudorandom number Generators and entropy.
  • Explain test strategy and describe functional and non-functional testing.
  • Explain the relationship between use cases and misuse and abuse cases and the importance of creating misuse and abuse cases.
  • Explain test strategy and describe functional and non-functional testing.
  • Describe test cases and test harnesses.
  • Explain black-box and white-box testing, objectives, and code coverage.
  • Discuss application security testing (AST) methods and explain their benefits and limitations.
  • Discuss manual code reviews and describe searching for embedded malicious code.
  • Recognise software security-relevant standards, explain crowdsourcing benefits and concerns and discuss bug bounty.
  • Explain the security implications of test results on product management and prioritisation of remediation efforts.
  • Explain break-build criteria.
  • Describe the process of tracking security defects.
  • Explain risk scoring and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
  • Explain the generation of test data, security of test data, ramifications of using production data in the test environment, and database referential integrity and constraints.
  • Describe the process of verification and validation testing and explain acceptance testing.
  • List various software documentation and explain undocumented functionality.
  • Describe OWASP's Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), its structure, and its goals.
     

Module 7: Secure Software Deployment, Operations, and Maintenance Domain

  • Explain secure integration, build, and deployment.
  • Describe the secure software toolchain.
  • Describe build artifacts and discuss the mobile application and platform security.
  • Describe security data, including credentials, keys, and certificates, and discuss the ramifications of failing to protect them in production.
  • Describe vaults used to manage secrets and discuss key vault considerations.
  • Describe the secure bootstrapping process, hardening, and the least privilege principle concerning secure software installation.
  • Explain secure software activation methods and security policy implementation concerning secure software installation.
  • Describe the Authorisation to Operate (ATO) process and the steps involved.
  • Explain risk acceptance.
  • Explain post-deployment verification, issue tracking, and testing constraints.
  • Describe security testing automation.
  • Describe the benefits of information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) and list some considerations for its implementation.
  • Describe events, logs, and threat intelligence.
  • Explain computer security incidents, incident response, and forensics.
  • Describe incident precursors and indicators, monitoring logs and alerts, and root-cause analysis.
  • Describe security patch management and explain the timing, prioritisation, and testing aspects of security patches.
  • Describe vulnerability management and vulnerability scan tools.
  • Explain the operations of web application firewalls.
  • Explain the locality of reference, address space layout randomisation, and data execution prevention.
  • Explain continuity of operations, business impact analysis, data backup and restore, and data archiving.
  • Discuss disaster recovery (DR), data residency requirement aspect of DR, resiliency, and erasure code.
     

Module 8: Secure Software Supply Chain Domain

  • Describe the software supply chain.
  • Recognise participants in the supply chain.
  • Explain software supply chain risk management.
  • Explain security risks associated with third-party/open-source code and recognise OWASP's Software Component Verification Standard (SCVS).
  • Describe software supply chain attacks.
  • Explain the risks associated with peer-to-peer applications and file sharing.
  • Explain code repository and build environment security.
  • Explain cryptographically hashed, digitally signed components.
  • Describe security in the acquisition process and audit of security policy compliance.
  • Explain third-party vulnerability/incident notification and reporting and maintenance and support structure.
  • Explain commercial and open-source software licenses.
  • Explain vendor/supplier security track record in acquisition and the right-to-audit clause in contracts.
  • Explain contractual requirements for intellectual property (IP) ownership input sourcing relationships, code escrow, liability, warranty, and service-level agreements (SLAs)
     

Module 9: Applied Scenario Activities

  • Applied Scenario Activities
     

Choose Your Preferred Mode

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Online Training

  • Comprehensive coverage of all eight CSSLP domains with real-world examples.
  • Interactive online sessions run by certified industry experts
  • Hands-on labs and case studies for understanding through practical learning
  • Flexible schedules to support learning at your own pace.
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Corporate Training

  • Expert trainers with extensive industry experience.
  • Customised training modules based on organisational needs.
  • Focus on practical implementation of secure software practices.
  • Real-time problem-solving of corporate challenges.

FAQ’s

What is the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Certification Training?
 

This course concerns developing competence in incorporating security into software from development inception through to its distribution.

Is the CSSLP certification globally recognised?

Yes, it is widely respected and recognised by professionals and organisations worldwide.
 

What materials will I receive during the training?

Each participant is issued complete course content, online materials, and practice labs.
 

What are the primary benefits of this certification?

It improves your learning on secure software development and provides impetus to your career in the domain of cybersecurity.
 

What technical skills are covered in this course?
 

Topics include secure coding, architecture design, vulnerability management, and compliance with security standards.
 

How does this course address compliance?
 

It covers secure software requirements, data privacy, and adherence to global regulations.
 

What tools or frameworks are discussed?

The course introduces industry-standard tools and secure software frameworks.
 

Can I apply these skills immediately after the course?

Yes, the training equips you with actionable skills for immediate implementation in your work.

Is the course content updated to reflect current industry trends?

It includes the latest practices and evolving threats in secure software development.
 

How does CSSLP differ from other cybersecurity certifications?
 

CSSLP focuses specifically on integrating security into the software lifecycle, setting it apart from general cybersecurity courses.
 

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Reviews

The CSSLP certification training by Vinsys helped me develop a deeper understanding of secure software practices and improved my career prospects.
Chirasha KapoorProject Managers
Vinsys offers a well-structured and insightful training experience that provided me with hands-on skills to tackle software security challenges effectively.
Jatin SharmaQuality Assurance Testers
As a company, we chose Vinsys for CSSLP training to enhance our team's security expertise, and it paid off with a noticeable improvement in our software lifecycle processes.
Dheeraj NegiApplication Programmers
The customised approach Vinsys took for our corporate team made a huge difference, ensuring every participant was engaged and equipped with practical security knowledge for real-world applications.
Divya PathakSystem Administrators

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