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Table of Contents

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 1: The CISSP Certification Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

    Assessing Exam Readiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

    Taking the Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

    Examples of CISSP Test Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

    Answer to Multiple-Choice Question . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

    Answer to Drag and Drop Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

    Answer to Hotspot Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

    Exam Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

    Question-Handling Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

    Mastering the Inner Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

CHAPTER 2: Logical Asset Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

    Basic Security Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

    Data Management: Determine and Maintain Ownership . . . . . . 30

        Data Governance Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

        Roles and Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

        Data Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

        Data Custodians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

        Data Documentation and Organization . . . . . . . . . 35

        Data Warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

        Data Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

        Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

    Data Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

        Data Lifecycle Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

        Data Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

        Data Storage and Archiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

    Data Security, Protection, Sharing, and Dissemination . . . . . . . 41

        Privacy Impact Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

        Information Handling Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 43

        Data Retention and Destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

        Data Remanence and Decommissioning . . . . . . . . . 45

    Classifying Information and Supporting Assets . . . . . . . . . 46

        Data Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

    Asset Management and Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

        Software Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

        Equipment Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

    Determine Data Security Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

        Data at Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

        Data in Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

        Endpoint Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

        Baselines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

    Laws, Standards, Mandates and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . 58

        United States Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

        International Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

CHAPTER 3: Physical Asset Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

    Physical Security Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

        Natural Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

        Man-Made Threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

        Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

    Facility Concerns and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

        CPTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

        Area Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

        Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

        Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

        Doors, Walls, Windows, and Ceilings . . . . . . . . . . 79

        Asset Placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

        Physical Port Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

    Perimeter Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

        Fences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

        Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

        Bollards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

        CCTV Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

        Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

        Guards and Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

        Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

    Employee Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

        Badges, Tokens, and Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

        Biometric Access Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

    Environmental Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

        Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning . . . . . . . . 98

    Electrical Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

        Uninterruptible Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

    Equipment Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

    Fire Prevention, Detection, and Suppression . . . . . . . . . . 101

        Fire-Detection Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

        Fire Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

    Alarm Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

        Intrusion Detection Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

        Monitoring and Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

    Suggested Reading and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

CHAPTER 4: Security and Risk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

    Security Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

        Third-Party Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

        Organization Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

    Protection of Intellectual Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

    Privacy Laws and Protection of Personal Information . . . . . . . 121

    Relevant Laws and Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

    United States Legal System and Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

    International Legal Systems and Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

    Computer Crime and Hackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

        Sexual Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

    Risk Management Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

        Risk Management Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

        Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

    Countermeasure Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

    Develop and Implement Security Policy . . . . . . . . . . . 149

        Security Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

        Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

        Baselines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

        Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

        Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

    Types of Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

        Administrative Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

        Technical Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

        Physical Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

        Access Control Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

    Implement Personnel Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

        New-Hire Agreements and Policies . . . . . . . . . . . 157

        Separation of Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

        Job Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

        Least Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

        Mandatory Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

        Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

    Security Education, Training, and Awareness . . . . . . . . . . 160

        Security Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

        Social Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

    Professional Ethics Training and Awareness . . . . . . . . . . 163

        ISC2 Code of Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

        Computer Ethics Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

        Internet Architecture Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

        NIST SP 800-14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

        Common Computer Ethics Fallacies . . . . . . . . . . . 167

        Regulatory Requirements for Ethics Programs . . . . . . . 167

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

CHAPTER 5: Security Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

    Fundamental Concepts of Security Models . . . . . . . . . . 176

        Central Processing Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

        Storage Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

        I/O Bus Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

        Virtual Memory and Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . 184

        Computer Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

    Security Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

        Protection Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

        Trusted Computer Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

        Open and Closed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

        Security Modes of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

        Operating States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

        Recovery Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

        Process Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

    Common Formal Security Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

        State Machine Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

        Information Flow Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

        Noninterference Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

        Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

        Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

        Other Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

    Product Security Evaluation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

        The Rainbow Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

        Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria . . . . . 210

        Common Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

    System Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

        Certification and Accreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

    Security Guidelines and Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

        Enterprise Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

        Regulatory Compliance and Process Control . . . . . . . . 218

    Vulnerabilities of Security Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . 218

        Buffer Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

        Back Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

        State Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

        Covert Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

        Incremental Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

        Emanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

        Web-based Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

        Mobile System Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

CHAPTER 6: The Application and Use of Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

    Cryptographic Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

    History of Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

    Steganography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

        Steganography Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

        Digital Watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

    Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

    Cipher Types and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

    Symmetric Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

        Data Encryption Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

        Triple-DES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

        Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) . . . . . . . . . . 257

        International Data Encryption Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 258

        Rivest Cipher Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

    Asymmetric Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

        Diffie-Hellman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

        RSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

        El Gamal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

        Elliptical Curve Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

        Merkle-Hellman Knapsack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

        Review of Symmetric and Asymmetric Cryptographic Systems . . 264

    Hybrid Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

    Integrity and Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

        Hashing and Message Digests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

        Digital Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

        Cryptographic System Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

    Public Key Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

        Certificate Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

        Registration Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

        Certificate Revocation List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

        Digital Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

        The Client’s Role in PKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

    Email Protection Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

        Pretty Good Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

        Other Email Security Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 278

    Securing TCP/IP with Cryptographic Solutions . . . . . . . . . 279

        Application/Process Layer Controls . . . . . . . . . . . 280

        Host to Host Layer Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

        Internet Layer Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

        Network Access Layer Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

        Link and End-to-End Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

        Cryptographic Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

CHAPTER 7: Communications and Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

    Secure Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

    Network Models and Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

        OSI Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

        Encapsulation/De-encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

    TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

        Network Access Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

        Internet Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

        Host-to-Host (Transport) Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

        Application Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

    LANs and Their Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

        LAN Communication Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

        Network Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

        LAN Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

        Network Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

        Network Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

    Communication Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

    Network Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

        Repeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

        Hubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

        Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

        Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

        Mirrored Ports and Network Taps . . . . . . . . . . . 330

        VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

        Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

        Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

    Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

    WANs and Their Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

        Packet Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

        Circuit Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

    Cloud Computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

    Voice Communications and Wireless Communications . . . . . . 342

        Voice over IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

        Cell Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

        802.11 Wireless Networks and Standards . . . . . . . . . 346

    Network Access Control Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

        Firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

        Demilitarized Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

        Firewall Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

    Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

        Point-to-Point Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

        Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service . . . . . . . . 362

        Terminal Access Controller Access Control System . . . . . . 362

        IPsec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

    Message Privacy and Multimedia Collaboration . . . . . . . . . 364

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

CHAPTER 8: Identity and Access Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

    Identification, Authentication, and Authorization of People and Devices . .. 375

        Authentication Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

        Identity Management Implementation . . . . . . . . . . 391

    Single Sign-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

        Kerberos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

        Sesame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

    Authorization and Access Control Techniques . . . . . . . . . 397

        Discretionary Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

        Mandatory Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

        Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

        Other Types of Access Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

    Access Control Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

        Centralized Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

        Decentralized Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

    Audit and Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

        Monitoring Access and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

        Intrusion Detection Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

        Intrusion Prevention Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

        Network Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

        Keystroke Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

    Suggesting Reading and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

CHAPTER 9: Security Assessment and Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

    Security Assessments and Penetration Test Strategies. . . . . . . 426

Audits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

        Vulnerability Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

        Penetration Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

    Test Techniques and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

    Security Threats and Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

        Threat Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

        Attack Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

    Network Security Threats and Attack Techniques . . . . . . . . 439

        Session Hijacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

        Sniffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

        Wiretapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

        DoS Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

        Distributed Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

        Botnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

        Other Network Attack Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 446

    Access Control Threats and Attack Techniques . . . . . . . . . 448

        Unauthorized Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

        Access Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

        Password Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

        Spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

        Eavesdropping and Shoulder Surfing . . . . . . . . . . 453

        Identity Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

    Social-based Threats and Attack Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 454

    Malicious Software Threats and Attack Techniques . . . . . . . . 456

        Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

        Worms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

        Logic Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

        Backdoors and Trojans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

        Rootkits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

        Crimeware Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

        Advanced Persistent Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

        Ransomware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

    How Computer Crime Has Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

    Well-Known Computer Crimes and Criminals . . . . . . . . . 465

    Investigating Computer Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

        Computer Crime Jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

        Incident Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

    Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

        Standardization of Forensic Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 473

        Computer Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

    Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

        Search, Seizure, and Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

        Interviews and Interrogations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

        Honeypots and Honeynets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

        Evidence Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

    Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

        The Evidence Life-Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

CHAPTER 10: Security Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

    Foundational Security Operations Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 492

        Managing Users and Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

        Privileged Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

        Controlling Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

        Clipping Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

    Resource Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

        Due Care and Due Diligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

        Asset Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

        System Hardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

        Change and Configuration Management . . . . . . . . . 498

        Trusted Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

        Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

        Media Management, Retention, and Destruction . . . . . . 502

    Telecommunication Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

        Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

        Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

        Whitelisting, Blacklisting, and Graylisting . . . . . . . . . 506

        Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

        PBX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

        Anti-malware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

        Honeypots and Honeynets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

        Patch Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

    System Resilience, Fault Tolerance, and Recovery Controls . . . . . 511

        Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

        Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

        RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

        Recovery Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

    Monitoring and Auditing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

        Auditing User Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

        Monitoring Application Transactions . . . . . . . . . . 520

        Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) . . . . . 521

        Network Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

        Keystroke Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

        Emanation Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

        Controlling Physical Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

    Intrusion Detection Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

        Network-Based Intrusion Detection Systems . . . . . . . . 526

        Host-Based Intrusion-Detection Systems . . . . . . . . . 527

        Signature-Based, Anomaly-Based, and Rule-Based

        IDS Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

        Intrusion Prevention Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

    Responding to Operational Security Incidents . . . . . . . . . 530

        Incident Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

    The Disaster Recovery Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

        Teams and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

CHAPTER 11: Software Development Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

    Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

        Avoiding System Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

        The System Development Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . 545

    Development Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

        The Waterfall Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

        The Spiral Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

        Joint Application Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

        Rapid Application Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

        Incremental Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

        Prototyping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

        Modified Prototype Model (MPM) . . . . . . . . . . . 557

        Computer-Aided Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 557

        Agile Development Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

        Capability Maturity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

        Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

    Change Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

    Programming Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

        Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

        CORBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

    Database Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

        Database Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

        Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

        Transaction Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

        Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems . . . . . . . . . 570

    Security of the Software Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

        Mobile Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

        Buffer Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

        Financial Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

        Change Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

        Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

        Worms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

CHAPTER 12: Business Continuity Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

    Threats to Business Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

    Business Continuity Planning (BCP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

        Project Management and Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . 591

        Business Impact Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

        Recovery Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

        Plan Design and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

        Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

        Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

        Monitoring and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

    Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

    Answers to Exam Prep Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

    Need to Know More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Practice Exam I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Answers to Practice Exam I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Practice Exam II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Answers to Practice Exam II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

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