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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

Policies and User Guides

The management team will create policies that need to be adhered to by all employees, and these policies are created to help reduce the risk to the business and are mandatory; failure to carry out these policies is called policy violation and may lead to disciplinary action:

  • Policies: IT is immense, so if the management team says to the security administrators to go and set up IT security, the administrators would not know what to do, or where to start. Do they want firewall rules to be set up, or permissions set on files?

If a policy was created so that Data Loss Prevention (DLP) templates were created to prevent Personally Identified Information (PII) or sensitive data being emailed out of the company, then the Security Administrators would know exactly what to do.

The purpose of policies is to ensure that the security administrator knows what tasks...