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ISTQB® Certified Tester Security Tester (CT-SEC)
The ISTQB® Security Tester (CT-SEC) certification focuses on planning, performing, and evaluating security tests from multiple perspectives including risk, requirements, vulnerability, and human factors. It also covers security testing tools and standards.
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The ISTQB® Security Tester (CT-SEC) certification focuses on planning, performing, and evaluating security tests from multiple perspectives including risk, requirements, vulnerability, and human factors. It also covers security testing tools and standards.
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What You Will Learn
According to the official syllabus (Version 1.0, 2016), CT-SEC is structured into nine main chapters:
Chapter 1- The Basis of Security Testing
Chapter 2- Security Testing Purpose, Goals and Strategies
Chapter 3- Security Testing Processes
Chapter 4- Security Testing Throughout the Software Lifecycle
Chapter 5- Testing Security Mechanisms
Chapter 6- Human Factors in Security Testing
Chapter 7- Security Test Evaluation and Reporting
Chapter 8- Security Testing Tools
Chapter 9-Standards and Industry Trends
Certification & Exam
After you complete an accredited CT-SEC training, you prepare to take the official exam for the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certified Tester – Security Tester certification.
To become eligible for the CT-SEC certificate you must:
Already hold the CTFL (Foundation Level) certificate.
Have at least three years of relevant experience in security testing, or a combination of academic, consulting or practical security testing experience.
Pass the CT-SEC exam, which includes 45 questions, runs for 120 minutes and requires a passing score of 52 out of 80 points.
Once you meet those prerequisites and pass the exam, you receive the CT-SEC certificate, confirming your competence in planning, performing and evaluating security tests.
What You Will Achieve
Advanced Level testers who have passed the “Advanced Security Tester” module exam should be able to accomplish the following Business Objectives:
Plan, perform and evaluate security tests from a variety of perspectives – policy-based, risk-based, standards-based, requirements-based and vulnerability-based.
Align security test activities with project lifecycle activities.
Analyze the effective use of risk assessment techniques in a given situation to identify current and future security threats and assess their severity levels.
Evaluate the existing security test suite and identify any additional security tests.
Analyze a given set of security policies and procedures, along with security test results, to determine effectiveness.
For a given project scenario, identify security test objectives based on functionality, technology attributes and known vulnerabilities.
Analyze a given situation and determine which security testing approaches are most likely to succeed in that situation.
Identify areas where additional or enhanced security testing may be needed.
Evaluate effectiveness of security mechanisms.
Help the organization build information security awareness.
Demonstrate the attacker mentality by discovering key information about a target, performing actions on a test application in a protected environment that a malicious person would perform, and understand how evidence of the attack could be deleted.
Analyze a given interim security test status report to determine the level of accuracy, understandability, and stakeholder appropriateness.
Analyze and document security test needs to be addressed by one or more tools.
Analyze and select candidate security test tools for a given tool search based on specified needs.
Understand the benefits of using security testing standards and where to find them.
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CT-SEC is an ISTQB Specialist certification focused on planning, performing, and evaluating security tests. It covers security testing from angles like risk, requirements, vulnerabilities, human factors, plus tools and standards.
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