ISC2Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
The ISSAP certification validates your expertise in developing, designing, and analyzing security solutions across an organization. Ideal for chief security architects and analysts, it proves you can provide risk-based guidance to senior management and align security architecture with organizational goals. Earning the ISSAP demonstrates elite-level knowledge and opens doors to new career opportunities.
343 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
4Domains
11Objectives
91Concepts
343Questions
ISSAP Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the ISSAP exam measures.
- Information security standards and guidelines
- Regulatory frameworks and compliance
- Industry-specific requirements
- Third-party and contractual obligations
- Supply chain security considerations
- Outsourcing and partner agreements
- Sensitive and personal data standards
- Privacy regulations and compliance
- Data classification and handling
- Resilient solutions design
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Redundancy and fault tolerance
- Asset Identification
- Business Objective Alignment
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Monitoring Design
- Vulnerability Management Reporting
- Compliance Audit Reporting
- Regulatory Requirements
- Forensic Requirements
- Segregation of Duties
- High Assurance Systems
- Risk Assessment Artifacts
- Risk Treatment Options
- Scope of Security Architecture
- Types of Security Architecture
- TOGAF Framework
- SABSA Framework
- Service-Oriented Modeling Framework
- Reference Architectures
- Architecture Blueprints
- STRIDE Threat Modeling
- CVSS for Vulnerability Assessment
- Threat Intelligence Integration
- Threat Modeling Results Analysis
- Gap Identification in Security Design
- Evaluation of Alternative Mitigations
- Internal and External Third-Party Validation
- Code Review Methodologies
- Deployment models
- IT and OT security
- Physical security controls
- Infrastructure and system monitoring
- Infrastructure and system cryptography
- Application security requirements
- Physical Security Controls
- Platform Security
- Network Security Fundamentals
- Storage Security
- Data Repository Security
- Cloud Security
- Operational Technology Security
- Endpoint Security
- Secure Shared Services
- Third-Party Integrations
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Content Monitoring and DLP
- Out-of-Band Communications
- Security Controls for System Components
- Cryptographic design considerations
- Cryptographic implementation states
- Key management lifecycle planning
- Identity Establishment and Verification
- Identifier Assignment
- Identity Provisioning and De-provisioning
- Identity Management Technologies
- Authentication approach definition
- Single-factor authentication
- Multi-factor authentication
- Risk-based elevation
- SAML
- RADIUS
- Kerberos
- OAuth
- XACML
- LDAP
- Trust relationships definition
- Federated trust
- Stand-alone trust
- Authorization concepts and principles
- Authorization models
- Authorization process and workflow
- Roles, rights, and responsibilities
- Privileged account management
- Authorization approaches
- Accounting Requirements Determination
- Audit Event Definition
- Audit Log Alerting and Notification
- Log Retention and Integrity
- Log Analysis and Reporting
- Regulatory and Policy Compliance
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