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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

DevOps

DevOps is where the IT operations and developers work together in the entire service life cycle, from design to rollout to production support. They use many of the same techniques as developers for their systems work.

Secure DevOps

Secure DevOps is where the security team, IT operations, and developers work together on software development; the focus is on reducing the time it takes for the software to get into production, which is why they adopt an Agile SDLC. There are processes that help them:

  • Security Automation: This is the automatic handling of tasks by a computer rather than a security administrator. Orchestration is the connecting and integrating of various security applications and processes together. For...