CISP-SSDP study guide
CISP-SSDP · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
This independent study page provides practice for CISP-SSDP. Its editorial learning areas include Security foundations, governance and Chinese context; Identity, access and cryptographic protection; Application and data protection; Secure development, review and software supply chain; Vulnerability discovery, prioritization and verification; Security operations, monitoring and response; Cyber-risk identification and analysis. The CISP-SSDP study guide has 7 sections and about 4,542 words.
01Security foundations, governance and Chinese context
This domain covers the vocabulary and models that every later domain assumes: what security protects, how it is decomposed, and the formal rules that describe access control. NISP Level 1 questions here are usually definitional, so precision matters more than depth.
917 words, about 5 min02Identity, access and cryptographic protection
This domain tests the identity lifecycle and the mechanisms that turn an identity into an authorised action. Expect questions that separate authentication from authorisation and that ask which access control model fits a scenario.
857 words, about 4 min03Application and data protection
This domain covers how applications fail and how data is classified and protected through its life. Questions often present a code behaviour or a data-handling scenario and ask for the correct control.
399 words, about 2 min04Secure development, review and software supply chain
Secure software development integrates security requirements, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. Begin with intended users, data, business functions and misuse cases.
438 words, about 2 min05Vulnerability discovery, prioritization and verification
This domain tests whether you can turn a scanner report into a defensible remediation plan. It separates discovery, prioritisation and verification, and expects you to know the scoring systems and their limits.
381 words, about 2 min06Security operations, monitoring and response
This domain is about running security as a repeatable service rather than a series of heroic acts. Questions target process ownership, change control and the operational metrics that show the programme is working.
803 words, about 4 min07Cyber-risk identification and analysis
IT risk assessment has three phases. Identification builds the inventory: assets, processes, data flows, threats, vulnerabilities, and existing controls, often through risk scenarios ("who or what could exploit which vulnerability, and with what consequence?").
747 words, about 4 min