Chapter 1
Defending Against Cybersecurity Threats
THE COMPTIA CYBERSECURITY ANALYST+ EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE:
- Domain 1: Threat Management
- ✓ 1.3 Given a network-based threat, implement or recommend the appropriate response and countermeasure.
- ✓ 1.4 Explain the purpose of practices used to secure a corporate environment.
Cybersecurity analysts are responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems used by their organizations. Fulfilling this responsibility requires a commitment to a defense-in-depth approach to information security that uses multiple, overlapping security controls to achieve each cybersecurity objective. It also requires that analysts have a strong understanding of the threat environment facing their organization in order to develop a set of controls capable of rising to the occasion and answering those threats.
In the first section of this chapter, you will learn...