According to (ISC)², course material, covering the 10 CISSP domains of the CBK, is redesigned and updated for every Review Seminar to reflect the latest information system security issues, concerns, and countermeasures. The following domains are covered in the seminar modules.

Information Security and Risk Management - Security Management entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation, and implementation of policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines. Management tools such as data classification and risk assessment/analysis are used to identify threats, classify assets, and to rate system vulnerabilities so that effective controls can be implemented.

Cryptography - The Cryptography domain addresses the principles, means, and methods of disguising information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and authenticity.

Operations Security - Operations Security is used to identify the controls over hardware, media, and the operators and administrators with access privileges to any of these resources. Audit and monitoring are the mechanisms, tools, and facilities that permit the identification of security events and subsequent actions to identify the key elements and report the pertinent information to the appropriate individual, group, or process.

Physical (Environmental) Security - The Physical (Environmental) Security domain provides protection techniques for the entire facility, from the outside perimeter to the inside office space, including all of the information system resources.

Legal, Regulations, Compliance, and Investigation - This domain addresses:

Access Control - Access Controls are a collection of mechanisms that work together to create a security architecture to protect the assets of the information system.

Application Security - This domain addresses the important security concepts that apply to application software development. It outlines the environment where software is designed and developed and explains the critical role software plays in providing information system security.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning - This domain addresses the preservation and recovery of business operations in the event of outages.

Security Architecture and Design - The Security Architecture and Design domain contains the concepts, principles, structures, and standards used to design, monitor, and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, applications and those controls used to enforce various levels of availability, integrity, and confidentiality.

Telecommunications and Network Security - The Telecommunications and Network Security domain discusses the: