The Official (ISC)2 SSCP CBK Reference, 6th Edition

Appendix: Cross-Domain Challenges

YOU'VE SEEN BY NOW that many of the protocols and design aspects of IT and OT systems (and security for those systems) do not cleanly fit within one layer of the ISO 7-Layer protocol stack; nor do they necessarily fit cleanly within a single SSCP domain. The nature and sophistication of the cyberattacks committed during the years 2019 to 2021 demonstrate that security professionals do need to sometimes step back from the particulars they are specialists in and take a more holistic view of certain strategic, tactical, and operational choices their organization has to make. This holistic view can help frame specific issues in a larger organizational context, while providing the insight an SSCP might need to ...