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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

Risk Management

Risk management is the process of identifying risks within a company and making decisions about how to reduce the risks so that an incident does not cause harm to the company and its assets. You may not be able to eliminate the risk completely, but you may be able to put procedures in place to reduce it or keep it an acceptable level.

The first step in risk management is to identify the asset. Is it a top secret document? If that was the case you'd limit access to the document. The top secret document would be stored in a secure area at all times; nobody would be able to take copies or photographs of it.

For example, if you had 1 kg of trash and you placed it outside your front door at night, you would be certain that in the morning it would still be there; however, if the asset was 1 kg of 24-carat gold and you left it outside your house at night, it would...