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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

Common Use Cases for Cryptography

In the Security+ exam, "use case" just means examples of when something is used. We are now going to look at examples of when different cryptography techniques are used.

Supporting Confidentiality

A company's data cannot be priced, and the disclosure of this data could cause grave danger to the company. If your competitors stole your secrets, they could beat you to the market and you would not get the rewards that you deserved. To prevent data from being accessed, we will encrypt the data to prevent it from being viewed and prevent any protocol analyzer from reading the packets. When people access the company's network from a remote location, they should use a L2TP/IPSec...