Security Architecture & Engineering Domain

This domain cover the concepts, fundamental principles, basic architectures, and standards required to design a secure architecture. This domain represents 13 percent of the CISSP certification exam.

The main topics in this domain are:

• Security models and concepts
• Information systems security models
• Security capabilities of information systems
• Vulnerabilities in system architectures
• Vulnerabilities and threats to software and systems
• Countermeasure principles