Course essentials
Boot camp at a glance
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Method
Online, in-person, team onsite
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Duration
4 days
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Experience
5 years and over
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Meets 8570.1
DoD Information Assurance requirements
What you'll learn
Training overview

This four-day Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) Boot Camp is focused on teaching you the management of security programs and the ins and outs of security architecture. You’ll learn the technical aspects of security architecture, including identity and access management, infrastructure and application security, governance and compliance, security operations and security architecture modeling.
This boot camp not only teaches you the nuts and bolts of the security architecture, it prepares you to successfully pass the challenging (ISC)² ISSAP exam, one of three “concentration areas” for CISSP holders extending the CISSP common body of knowledge.
Award-winning training you can trust
What's included
Everything you need to know

- 90-day extended access to Boot Camp components, including class recordings
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Exam Pass Guarantee
- Exam voucher
- Free 90-day Infosec Skills subscription (access to 1,400+ additional courses and labs)
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
- Pre-study learning path
- Unlimited practice exam attempts
Before your boot camp
Prerequisites
The CISSP-ISSAP requires a candidate to:
- Be a CISSP in good standing
- Demonstrate two years of professional experience in at least one of the six CISSP-ISSAP domains.
Syllabus
Training schedule
Preparation (before the boot camp starts)
ISSAP prep course
Day 1
Introduction
Architect for governance, compliance and risk management
- Determine legal, regulatory, organizational and industry requirements
- Manage risk
Security architecture modeling
- Identify security architecture approach
- Verify and validate design (e.g., functional acceptance testing (FAT), regression)
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 2
Infrastructure security architecture
- Develop infrastructure security requirements
- Design defense-in-depth architecture
- Secure shared services (e.g., wireless, e-mail, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), unified communications (UC)
- Domain name system (DNS), network time protocol NTP))
- Integrate technical security controls
- Design and integrate infrastructure monitoring
- Design infrastructure cryptographic solutions
- Design secure network and communication infrastructure (e.g., virtual private network (VPN), internet protocol security (IPsec), transport layer security (TLS))
- Evaluate physical and environmental security requirements
Infrastructure security architecture continued
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 3
Identity and access management (IAM) architecture
- Design identity management and lifecycle
- Design access control management and lifecycle
- Design identity and access solutions
Architect for application security
- Integrate software development life cycle (SDLC) with application security architecture (e.g., requirements traceability matrix (RTM), security architecture documentation, secure coding)
- Determine application security capability requirements and strategy (e.g., open source, cloud service providers (CSP), software as a service (SaaS)/infrastructure as a service (IaaS)/platform as a service (PaaS) environments)
- Identify common proactive controls for applications (e.g., Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP))
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 4
Security operations architecture
- Gather security operations requirements (e.g., legal, compliance, organizational and business requirements)
- Design information security monitoring (e.g., security information and event management (SIEM), insider threat, threat intelligence, user behavior analytics, incident response (IR) procedures)
- Design business continuity (BC) and resiliency solutions
- Validate business continuity plan (BCP)/disaster recovery plan (DRP) architecture
- Design incident response (IR) management
ISSAP exam review
Guaranteed results
Our boot camp guarantees

Exam Pass Guarantee
If you don’t pass your exam on the first attempt, get a second attempt for free. Includes the ability to re-sit the course for free for up to one year (does not apply to CMMC-AB boot camps).

100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you’re not 100% satisfied with your training at the end of the first day, you may withdraw and enroll in a different online or in-person course.

Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
If an employee leaves within three months of obtaining certification, Infosec will train a different employee at the same organization tuition-free for up to one year.
Unlock team training discounts
If you’re like many of our clients, employee certification is more than a goal — it’s a business requirement. Connect with our team to learn more about our training discounts.

Meets 8570.1 requirements
Attention DoD Information Assurance workers! This boot camp helps meet U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570.1 requirements for department employees or contractors engaged in work related to information security.
You're in good company
The instructor was able to take material that prior to the class had made no sense, and explained it in real world scenarios that were able to be understood.
Erik Heiss, United States Air Force
I really appreciate that our instructor was extremely knowledgeable and was able to provide the information in a way that it could be understood. He also provided valuable test-taking strategies that I know not only helped me with this exam, but will help in all exams I take in the future.
Michelle Jemmott, Pentagon
The course was extremely helpful and provided exactly what we needed to know in order to successfully navigate the exam. Without this I am not confident I would have passed.
Robert Caldwell, Salient Federal Solutions
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