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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

Mobile Device Management Concepts

MDM is a software that allows security administrators to control, secure, and enforce policies on smartphones, tablets, and other endpoint devices. Let us look at the different aspects of MDM.

Push notification services can be used to inform the device owner that an email or a text has arrived. For example, if someone sends you a message to your LinkedIn account, a push notification can tell you that you have a new message.

Accessing the Device

Mobile devices are very small and very easy to steal, therefore, we need to look at how we can prevent someone from accessing the data even if the device's host has been lost or stolen. We will first look at screen locks and passwords, followed...