Destination CCSP: The Comprehensive Guide

This Second Edition of our CCSP guidebook has been fully updated to reflect the August 2026 exam outline.

The goal of this comprehensive study guide is simple: we want to help you pass the CCSP exam with confidence and provide you with a solid foundation of security knowledge that will make you a better security professional as you navigate your career.

We have created this guide to be concise, while still offering comprehensive and valuable information that helps you understand the important concepts behind each domain that makes up the CCSP certification.

Our team has created hundreds of diagrams and tables to highlight the core concepts that you need to know for each section, with the aim of simplifying CCSP exam preparation as much as possible.

After decades of working in the trenches of the cybersecurity industry, collaborating with ISC2, developing official curricula and official study guides, as well as teaching countless CCSP classes, we have guided many students to achieve success on the CCSP exam. This book distills all of that experience into one clear guide to give you the best chances of passing the CCSP exam.