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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

Importance of Policy, Plans, and Procedures

Creating policies, plans, and procedures is a part of risk management and helps to reduce the attack surface and prevent incidents from happening. Let's look at the different type of policies that can be used.

Standard Operating Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) give us step-by-step instructions about how an activity is to be carried out. An example would be how to back up data. The SOP will state which data needs to be backed up daily, weekly, or monthly. Critical data would be backed up every two hours, whereas archive data may be backed up monthly. The SOP would also state the medium to be used for the backup; it may be backed up to a NetApp or network share...