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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

Device Management

Corporate devices need to be controlled so that employees cannot simply connect to an app store and download every application that they wish. For example, allowing games on corporate devices would have an adverse impact on productivity and security. We are now going to look at the downloads, applications, and content managers, and their characteristics, followed by remote wipe:

  • Download Manager: The download manager controls the number of connections and the speed of downloading onto a mobile device
  • Application Management: Application management uses whitelists to control which applications are allowed to be installed onto the mobile device
  • Content Management: Content management stores business data in a secure area of the device in an encrypted format to protect it against attacks
  • Remote Wipe: When a mobile device has been lost or stolen, it can be remote...