From the course: ISC2 Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) Cert Prep

Objectives and technical processes

- [Brad] Welcome back to Cybrary's ISSEP course. I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes. We have reached Module 5 of 10, and this will be Domain 4 of ISSEP, "Systems Implementation, Verification and Validation." So, where are we in our ISSEP course journey? We're halfway through. Or, well, when we're done with this module, we'll be halfway through. And this module is going to frame a lot of future things that we talk about related to understanding things like the ISSE processes, the system development lifecycle, verification and validation. These technical processes we're going to talk about are very much key to being a solid ISSE. So, let's jump into the objectives for our module and technical processes. In this video, pretty straightforward. We're going to talk about specifically the module objectives. This is a little shorter module than we've done in previous times. And then, we're going to talk about technical processes and how they relate to system lifecycle processes in NIST. So, four module objectives for this particular domain. We're going to look at implementation and integration of systems. We're going to talk about verification, which we know from previous discussions is did we meet requirements? We're going to talk about validation, which is do we meet mission? And then we're going to talk about something also important which is stakeholder communications, which is something you should be doing throughout these different processes of ISSEP. So, technical processes are one of four process areas in the system life cycle. There's three other ones. Agreement processes, organizational project-enabling processes, and technical management processes. So, let's talk about the top three first and then we'll touch on technical processes. Agreement processes are just what you think they are. They're a process where you create an agreement for something. It could be acquisition or supply. In organization project-enabling process, these are things like human resources, quality management, knowledge management tracking, infrastructure management, all of the processes there that enable a project to happen. Then we have technical management processes, and this is things like risk management, configuration management, information management, project planning, or project management. That's what you find in the technical management processes, hence technical management. And then we have the technical processes, four of which we're going to cover here in this particular module, which are going to be implementation and integration, verification and validation. And so, these processes are part of a larger sum of technical processes, all of which an ISSE should be familiar with. But these are the most important for the ISSEP content. So in this lesson, this video, we covered the objectives for this module, which is Module 5, Domain 4 of ISSEP, and we talked about the technical processes and the four ones that you need to be familiar with as an ISSE. We'll see you next time.

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