CISSP As An Art Domain 3

Categories: CISSP Trial

About Course

  • Understand security architecture and engineering through visual storytelling and real-world analogies.

  • Apply secure design principles, trust boundaries, isolation and access controls.

  • Understand subjects, objects, trusted computing bases, reference monitors and security kernels.

  • Explore security models, including Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Clark-Wilson, Brewer-Nash and Graham-Denning.

  • Understand security evaluation and assurance frameworks, including TCSEC, ITSEC and Common Criteria.

  • Distinguish between security certification, accreditation and ongoing assurance.

  • Explore trusted computing technologies, including TPM, HSM and secure boot mechanisms.

  • Understand cryptographic principles, encryption, hashing, digital signatures, PKI and key management.

  • Identify system vulnerabilities and apply appropriate security countermeasures.

  • Understand physical security principles and how they support secure system design.

  • Develop the ability to analyse security scenarios and apply CISSP concepts to real-world decisions.

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Course Content

Set 1: Security Architecture Foundations
This eight-episode set introduces the foundations of security architecture through creative analogies, pencil-sketch artwork and straightforward explanations. Students follow how security becomes part of a system’s design: identifying who accesses what, establishing boundaries, enforcing access rules and selecting security models. They then explore how security claims are evaluated, how leaders accept remaining risk and how built-in capabilities help protect the system. ** Learning objectives ** By the end of this set, students will be able to: - Explain why security must be included in the blueprint before construction begins. - Identify subjects and objects, and distinguish open and closed systems from open and closed source. - Explain security boundaries, isolation, controls, trust and assurance. - Describe the Trusted Computing Base, reference monitor and security kernel. - Compare security models and recognise the confidentiality, integrity or conflict-of-interest problems they address. - Explain how Common Criteria, Protection Profiles, Security Targets and assurance levels support evaluation. - Distinguish certification from accreditation, including the roles of assessors and risk decision-makers. - Describe capabilities such as TPMs, HSMs, virtualisation, memory protection and fault tolerance. ** What you will gain ** Students will gain a connected understanding of how a system is designed, protected, evaluated and authorised to operate. They will be better prepared to explain these concepts in their own words, recognise them in practical scenarios and reason through CISSP questions. The set ends with a quiz, an assignment and practice questions that help students check their understanding and apply what they have learned.

  • Episode 1: Security Is Part of the Blueprint
    03:29
  • Episode 2: Subjects, Objects and Open vs Closed System
    05:08
  • Episode 3: Boundaries, Controls, Trust and Assurance
    06:08
  • Episode 04: The Trusted Core and the Gatekeeper
    05:33
  • Episode 5A: Types of Security Models and Bell–LaPadula
    05:39
  • Episode 5B: Biba and Information Flow
    04:59
  • Episode 5C: Covert Channel Attacks
    03:53
  • Episode 5D: Clark–Wilson Model
    03:05
  • Episode 5E: Brewer–Nash / Chinese Wall Model
    04:22
  • Episode 5F: Take–Grant, Sutherland and Non-Interference
    05:09
  • Episode 5G: Goguen–Meseguer and Graham–Denning
    04:23
  • Episode 06: TCSEC, ITSEC and Common Criteria
    13:30
  • Episode 07: Certification, Accreditation and The Decision to Operate
    11:40
  • Episode 08: TPM & HSM – Security Capabilities Inside the System
    04:41
  • Security Architecture Foundations: Set 1 Knowledge Check
  • Security Architecture Foundations: Set 1 Scenario Practice

Set 2: Cryptography
In production - Coming soon

Set 3: Security Vulnerabilities, Threats and Countermeasures
In production - Coming soon

Set 4: Physical Security Requirements
In production - Coming soon

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