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CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

CompTIA Security+ is a worldwide certification that establishes the fundamental knowledge required to perform core security functions and pursue an IT security career. CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide is a best-in-class exam study guide that covers all of CompTIA Security+ 501 exam objectives. It is authored by Ian Neil, who is a world-class trainer of CompTIA Security+ 501. Packed with self-assessment scenarios and realistic exam questions, this guide will help you master the core concepts to succeed in the exam the first time you take it. Using relevant examples, you will learn all the important security fundamentals from Certificates and Encryption to Identity and Access Management concepts. You will then dive into the important domains of the exam; namely, threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, technologies and tools, architecture and design, risk management, and cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This book comes with over 600 practice questions with detailed explanation that is at the exam level and also includes two mock exams to help you with your study plan. This guide will ensure that encryption and certificates are made easy for you.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
12
Mock Exam 1
13
Mock Exam 2
15
Acronyms

Incident Response Procedures

There are many different incidents, and each of them requires a different incident response plan. For example, dealing with a flood is totally different to dealing with the failure of a server's hardware. The first stage of an incident response plan is to collect any volatile evidence so that the source of that incident can be identified, followed by containment of the incident itself, followed by the recovery procedures. Let's look in more detail at the components required to make incident response successful:

  • Documented Incident Types: We should already have documentation about each incident that shows the steps required for a positive response. These types of incidents are laid down under different category definitions.
  • Category Definitions: Your company should have an outline of a plan for dealing with most incidents ranging from the...