CSSLP 2024: Security Design Principles

Skillsoft issued completion badges are earned based on viewing the percentage required or receiving a passing score when assessment is required. Security design principles are crucial for the CSSLP exam as they enable professionals to create resilient software systems, protect sensitive data, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance with industry standards, ultimately enhancing overall cybersecurity and professional credibility. In this course, you will explore security controls for integrity and the use of digital signatures to verify the origin and integrity of data. Next, you will learn about security controls for availability, including redundancy, replication, clustering, scalability, and resiliency to help ensure that systems remain operational and accessible even in the face of failures or high demand. Then you will also examine the concepts of privacy and nonrepudiation, as well as essential security design principles, such as least privilege, separation of duties, and Defense in Depth. Finally, you will investigate economy of mechanism, complete mediation, the principles of open design, and Kerckhoffs’s principle, emphasizing simplicity, thoroughness, and transparency in security designs. This course prepares learners for the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) exam.