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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

Protecting Against Attacks and Vulnerabilities

In this chapter, we are going to look at attacks and vulnerabilities. Each type of attack will have its unique characteristics. This is probably the most heavily tested subject in the Security+ exam. This chapter needs to be thoroughly understood because, sometimes, questions about attacks are very vague, so if you do not understand the concepts fully, you may not understand what is being asked.

We will cover the following exam objectives in this chapter:

  • Given a scenario, analyze indicators of compromise and determine the type of malware: Viruses—crypto-malware—Ransomware—worm—Trojanrootkitkeyloggeradware—spywarebotsRAT—logic bombbackdoor
  • Comparing and contrasting types of attacks: Social engineering—phishing—spear phishing&...