CISSP Mastery
Back to Security Architecture and Engineering
3.5 ~45 min

Assess and mitigate vulnerabilities of architectures and designs

Overview

Recognize the characteristic weaknesses of each platform type — from classic client/server and databases to cloud, IoT, ICS/OT, containers, serverless, and edge.

Key topics to master

  • Client-based / server-based / database systems
  • Cryptographic, embedded, and distributed systems
  • ICS / OT, IoT, HPC
  • Cloud (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS), microservices/API, containerization, serverless
  • Edge computing, virtualized systems