Global Security Leader Certificate

Target

Security Professionals with managerial or supervisory responsibility for information security staff.

No Specific training is required for GSLC certification. There are many sources of information available regarding the certification objectives' knowledge areas. Practical experience is an option; there are also numerous books on the market covering Computer Information Security.

The topic areas for each exam part follow:

1. Cryptographic Applications: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of using symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing algorithms to secure data in transit or at rest, as well as the importance of PKI and key management
   Cryptography Concepts for Managers: The candidate will demonstrate knowledge of common cryptographic terminology, and an understanding of how symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing encryption works
2. Incident Response and Business Continuity: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the phases of incident response and the business continuity process
3. Managing a Security Operations Center: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the components, structure, and management of a Security Operations Center (SOC)
4. Managing Application Security: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the top threats to application code and software-based infrastructure, as well as integrating security into the software development lifecycle and DevOps processes
5. Managing Negotiations and Vendors: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of effective negotiation and vendor management techniques
6. Managing Projects: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the terminology, concepts, and phases of project management
7. Managing Security Architecture: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of security architecture concepts, including cloud-based architecture, and how to apply trust models
8. Managing Security Awareness: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of how to assess an organization's human risks and build a security awareness program that can mature with the organization's security program
9. Managing Security Policy: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the role played by security policies, standards, guidelines, processes, and baselines in meeting an organization's security needs and risk appetite
10. Managing System Security: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the phases of a system attack, common types of attacks and malicious code, and the strategies used to mitigate those attacks
11. Managing the Program Structure: The candidate will be able to design a security program with an understanding of organizational culture and reporting structures, program governance, and hiring and retaining a security team
12. Network Monitoring for Managers: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of centralized logging and monitoring strategies and tools
13. Network Security and Privacy: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of network layer protocols and their relationship to network security and privacy concerns, as well as the ability to identity PII and security controls for protecting network data
14. Networking Concepts for Managers: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of protocols, vulnerabilities, attacks, and security controls at each layer of the OSI model
15. Risk Management and Security Frameworks: The candidate will demonstrate the ability to evaluate and manage risk in alignment with business objectives and adopting security frameworks and risk management techniques to help mature the security program
16. Vulnerability Management: The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of how to build a vulnerability management program for identifying, prioritizing, and remediating both technical and physical system vulnerabilities