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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 Data

To protect the data that is stored on a device, we should implement Full Device Encryption (FDE). The device requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip to store the encryption keys.

For example, a salesperson has just received a new company laptop where the operating system had been hardened. The device used Bitlocker encryption, where the whole device is encrypted to protect the data stored on the hard drive. In the Security+ exam, this is known as FDE.

Containerization offers organizations the ability to deploy and manage corporate content securely in an encrypted space on the device. All corporate resources, such as proprietary applications, corporate emails, calendars, and contacts, reside within this managed space. We could also place an application inside a virtual machine to segregate it from the laptop.

Storage segmentation is where an external device is...