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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

Disaster Recovery and the Continuity of Operations Concepts

It is important that if a company suffers from a disaster, they can be up and running as soon as possible. Disasters range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and floods, to hardware failure, malicious insider attacks, and accidental deletion of data. The main aim of a disaster recovery plan is getting the company back up and running so that it can generate income. Let's look at the different aspects of disaster recovery:

  • Business Impact Analysis (BIA): A BIA looks at the monetary loss if a company is not up and running, coupled with the purchase of new equipment so that the business can continue to operate.
  • Recovery sites: There are three main types of recovery site: these are hot, cold, and warm sites. Let's look at each of them:
    • Hot site: This site is up and running with staff loading data into live...