Chapter 4. Applications and Systems Development Security

OBJECTIVES

This chapter covers Domain 4, “Applications & Systems Development Security,” one of ten domains of the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) covered in the Certified Information Systems Security Professional Examination. We have divided this domain into several objectives for study.

Explore software/data issues and describe software and data handling applications. Demonstrate an understanding of the following:

  • Challenges of a distributed/nondistributed environment

  • Databases and data warehousing issues

  • Storage and storage systems

  • Knowledge-based systems

  • Web services and other examples of edge computing

  • If you are to understand computer security, you must understand how systems are developed. ...

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