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CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide

By : Mike Chapple, David Seidl
Book Image

CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide

By: Mike Chapple, David Seidl

Overview of this book

The CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide: Exam PT0-001 offers comprehensive preparation for the newest intermediate cybersecurity certification exam. With expert coverage of Exam PT0-001 objectives, this book is your ideal companion throughout all stages of study; whether you’re just embarking on your certification journey or finalizing preparations for the big day, this invaluable resource helps you solidify your understanding of essential skills and concepts. The book shows how to perform security assessments on desktops, mobile devices, cloud, IoT, as well as industrial and embedded systems. You'll learn how to identify security weaknesses and manage system vulnerabilities. As you progress, you'll learn methods to ensure that existing cybersecurity practices, configurations, and policies conform with current best practices. You'll assess your knowledge by simulating cyber attacks to pinpoint security weaknesses in operating systems, networks, and applications. By the end of the book, you'll have all the resources you need to prepare for the exam - identify what you already know, learn what you don’t know, and face the exam with full confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Acknowledgments
2
About the Authors
3
Introduction
4
Assessment Test
5
Answers to Assessment Test
18
Index
19
Advert
20
End User License Agreement

Recommending Mitigation Strategies

As you worked your way through the penetration test, you developed most of the material that you will need to include in your final report. However, one extremely important step remains before you can complete your documentation: recommending mitigation strategies.

Remember, the whole point of a penetration test is to discover weaknesses in an organization’s security posture so that they can be corrected. Penetration testers who successfully gain access to an organization’s computing environment understand the flaws they exploited in more detail than anyone else. This makes them uniquely suited to recommend ways to remediate those flaws. They simply need to ask themselves this: What controls would have prevented me from carrying out the activities that allowed me to gain access to this system?

Security professionals are often quick to jump to technological solutions, but penetration testers should consider the full range of potential remediations...