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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

Practical – Creating a Baseline

In this practical, we will download the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) tool, and then we will run the tool to see what missing patches and vulnerabilities it may have. The Windows 10 desktop that this demo will be run on has only recently had the latest update (two days ago):

  1. Go to Google and insert the latest MBSA download (the current link is https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19892; at the time of writing, this is MBSA 2.3):
  1. Select the language that you require, and then click on Download:
  1. All Windows 10 and Windows 8 desktops use 64 bit; I have selected 64 bit with English as the language. Click Next. Allow popups, and then select Run:
  1. Press Next:
  1. Select I accept the license agreement, and press Next:
  1. In the wizard, you can select the destination folder; select Next in the screen that...