Certification     (ISC)2     Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)     Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021

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Although cryptography isn't covered until domain 5 of the SSCP CBK, potential exam candidates and security professionals will benefit from foundational knowledge of cryptosystems early in their training.
Use this course to grasp the reasons and requirements for cryptography in safe-guarding information, including regulations and governance. Investigate cryptographic techniques, such as hashing and salting, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and elliptic curve cryptography. Discover what's involves in digital signatures and certificates. Explore cryptographic attacks, cryptanalysis, and countermeasures. And delve into advanced cryptosystems, such as quantum computing and blockchain.
Upon course completion, you'll be aware of the various traditional and modern cryptology techniques used to protect data and communications. This course will help you in the lead-up to taking the (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021 exam.

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Objectives

SSCP 2021: Understanding & Applying Cryptography discover the key concepts covered in this course define and compare cryptography and cryptanalysis, outline cryptographic services, list levels of encryption, and describe ciphers and cryptographic key types describe reasons and use cases for cryptography define and compare hashing and salting describe how symmetric key cryptosystems work and summarize what's meant by block ciphers and stream ciphers describe how asymmetric key cryptosystems work and summarize different types of key exchanges, such as Diffie-Hellman outline the components of digital signatures and certificates and name some certificate validation types define cryptanalysis and outline how various crypto attacks work name and describe various advanced cryptosystems summarize the key concepts covered in this course