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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

Privacy Threshold Assessment/Privacy Impact Assessment

Personal data use, storage, and access are regulated, and a company will be fined if they do not handle data properly. There are two policies that we need to look at, and these are the privacy threshold assessment and the privacy impact assessment. Let's now look at these:

  • Privacy Threshold Assessment: This assessment is to help identify personal information, described as either Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Sensitive Personal Information (SPI), or Public Health Information (PHI), as used in information security and privacy laws.
  • Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA): A PIA is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained. Should you have a project that requires access to the PII, SPI, or PHI information, you may need to fill in a PIA screening form justifying...