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

CHAPTER 1 SSCP^®Security Operations and Administration

THIS IS WHERE THE planning hits reality; it's in the day to day of information security operations that you see every decision made during the threat assessments and the risk mitigation plans being live-fire tested by your co-workers, customers, legitimate visitors, and threat actors alike. Whether you're an on-shift watch-stander in a security operations center (SOC) or network operations center (NOC) or you work a pattern of normal business hours and days, you'll be exposed to the details of information security in action.

Security operations and administration entail a wide breadth of tasks and functions, and the security professional is expected to have a working familiarity with each ...