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ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Security Tester (CTAL-SEC)

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on request
Duration
4 days
Level
Advanced
Price
on request
Location
Online, on site
In-house available
Yes

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Summary

The course “ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Security Tester” gives specialists a thorough grounding in IT security testing. You learn to identify security risks, to develop test strategies that fit and to carry out security testing across the whole software development lifecycle. The training prepares you thoroughly for the ISTQB certification exam and lets you apply what you learn in your own company at once.

Requirements:

To sit the certification exam you need the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate and at least three years of relevant professional experience in software testing.

The course follows the official ISTQB syllabus and covers, among other things:

The fundamentals of security testing

Security goals, threats and ways of testing

Strategies and processes in security testing

The lifecycle and the strategic goals

Testing security mechanisms

Tools and technical implementations

The human factor

Roles, responsibilities and thinking like an attacker

Reporting and analysis

Documenting the results and reading them

Testing tools

The different kinds, and how to choose

Standards and where things are going

The industry standards that matter, and the practices that work

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

  • you can identify security risks and develop the tests that fit them
  • you can test whether a security mechanism actually works
  • you can build an awareness of security in your company
  • you can think the way an attacker does, and use that to find weaknesses
Who it is for

This course is for:

Test managers and quality assurance specialists who answer for IT security, project leads, and anyone who wants to specialise in security testing.

What is included

Certified, experienced trainers. Personal attention: at most 12 participants per trainer. Free support hours for questions after the course. Online course with no technical requirements. The exam can be sat with us

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ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Security Tester (CTAL-SEC)

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