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ISC2 CISSP 2024 outline · Domain 7: Security operations

Foundational operations concepts: need to know, least privilege, separation of duties, job rotation, SLAs

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Security operations rest on a handful of principles that limit what any one person or process can do and make misuse harder to hide. They appear throughout the exam, often in scenario questions where you must identify the principle a control enforces or the one that was violated. Learn each principle's purpose and its limits, because the answer often hinges on which weakness a control addresses.

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