ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, 10th Edition

Chapter 6Cryptography and Symmetric Key Algorithms

THE CISSP TOPICS COVERED IN  THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE:

• Domain 3.0: Security Architecture and Engineering
  • 3.5 Assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements
    • 3.5.4 Cryptographic systems
  • 3.6 Select and determine cryptographic solutions
    • 3.6.1 Cryptographic life cycle (e.g., keys, algorithm selection)
    • 3.6.2 Cryptographic methods (e.g., symmetric)

Cryptography provides confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation for sensitive information while it is stored (at rest), traveling across a network (in transit/in motion), and existing in memory (in use/in processing). Cryptography is an extremely important security technology ...