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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

Risk Register

When we look at the overall risk for the company we will use a risk register. This is a list of all of the risks a company could face. The risk to the finance department with be assessed by the financial director and IT-related risk would be looked at by the IT manager. Each department can identify the assets, classify them, and decide on the risk treatment. The financial director and IT manager are known as risk owners - they are responsible for them:

Ser

Date

Owner

Description

Probability

Impact

Severity

Treatment

Contingency

Action taken

1

01/05/18

IT Manager

Loss of Switch

Low

High

High

Transfer. 2-hour fix SLA

Purchase spare switch

02/05/2018