Increasingly, organizations are challenged with both securing their digital assets and the information infrastructure as well achieving full compliance with legislations that impact their industry. Healthcare, financial, government and other verticals are required to constantly monitor the changing dynamics of their infrastructure to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities as well as ensure compliance with international as well as U.S. federal and state legislations and industry best practices. Further, United States federal information systems and those of their business associates must meet specific certification and accreditation security guidelines.  

The Certified Security Compliance Specialist^TM (CSCS^TM) credential is a job-role based designation. This program is designed to enable professionals to understand, prioritize and ultimately assist organizations achieve compliance with information security-based regulations.

Compliance is big business. Legislations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PIPEDA, FFIEC, HIPAA and standards such as the ISO 17799:2005 are a requirement for organizations to comply with. A key objective for organizations worldwide is to integrate security best practices and be in compliance. Skilled professionals who understand regulatory compliance requirements and information security are valued across several industries, especially healthcare, financial and the government.                                 

The Certified Security Compliance Specialist^TM (CSCS^TM) is a unique program of its type in the compliance and security industries - indeed the first of its type in the world. It is laser-beam focused on thoroughly examining compliance requirements and establishing best practices that can be applied in securing today’s digital business information infrastructure.  

Organizations are fast moving to a digital ecosystem that is governed by strict regulatory compliance requirements. Validate your compliance security skills and knowledge and distinguish yourself with the credential, Certified Security Compliance Specialist^TM (CSCS^TM).

 

Certified Security Compliance Specialist™

• Validate your compliance security skills and knowledge. Distinguish yourself with the credential, Certified Security Compliance Specialist^TM (CSCS^TM).
• Take the Certified Security Compliance Specialist^TM (CSCS^TM) exam at your convenience at www.ExamsOnline.com.
• All candidates that successfully pass the CSCS^TM exam will receive a free set of information security policy template documents¹. Retail value of InfoSec policies is $799.00 (available only at the e-store at www.ecfirst.com). Review sample enterprise security policies in class.

1. Is a one-user license and may only be used by CSCS^TM candidate for 1 site at no additional cost. May not be distributed or copied without written authorization from ecfirst.com.

 

From this compliance and security training program you will:

• Examine the security aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation with emphasis on key sections and critical compliance steps. Examine the COBIT security baseline.
• Learn about the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the HIPAA Security Rule.
• Analyze the international security standard, ISO’s 17799:2005.
• Learn about the Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment (FFIEC) guidelines.
• Examine California ’s SB 1386, AB 1950 and the GLB legislation requirements
• Understand the security certification and accreditation process for U.S. federal information systems. This is an important requirement for business associates worldwide.
• Review international regulations including Canada ’s PIPEDA, Japan ’s PIP, European Union’s DPD and EC Directive, Australia ’s Privacy Act, and the UK ’s Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act.
• Step through processes for conducting a comprehensive risk analysis and vulnerability assessments.
• Review key contingency compliance requirements for developing the framework for disaster recovery and emergency mode operation plans.

 

• To be certified as a CSCS^TM, the candidate must attend the two-day CSCS^TM training session delivered by the ecfirst.com Academy or any of its Authorized Partners. For a list of scheduled dates and locations, please visit www.ecfirst.com/Academy.
• It is strongly recommended that the candidate pass a major security certification exam such as CISSP, CISA or CISM or have equivalent knowledge and experience.

 

The complete two-day CSCS^TM program is of value to compliance professionals and managers, security officers, security practitioners, privacy officers and senior IT professionals.

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