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CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Security+ certification validates the fundamental knowledge required to perform core security functions and pursue a career in IT security. Authored by Ian Neil, a world-class CompTIA certification trainer, this book is a best-in-class study guide that fully covers the CompTIA Security+ 601 exam objectives. Complete with chapter review questions, realistic mock exams, and worked solutions, this guide will help you master the core concepts to pass the exam the first time you take it. With the help of relevant examples, you'll learn fundamental security concepts from certificates and encryption to identity and access management (IAM). As you progress, you'll delve into the important domains of the exam, including cloud security, threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, technologies and tools, architecture and design, risk management, cryptography, and public key infrastructure (PKI). You can access extra practice materials, including flashcards, performance-based questions, practical labs, mock exams, key terms glossary, and exam tips on the author's website at securityplus.training. By the end of this Security+ book, you'll have gained the knowledge and understanding to take the CompTIA exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Objectives for the CompTIA Security+ 601 exam
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Security Aims and Objectives
7
Section 2: Monitoring the Security Infrastructure
12
Section 3: Protecting the Security Environment
17
Section 4: Mock Tests
18
Chapter 13: Mock Exam 1
19
Mock Exam 1 Solutions
20
Chapter 14: Mock Exam 2
21
Mock Exam 2 Solutions

Knowing How to Apply Mitigation Techniques or Controls to Secure an Environment

Should we find that we have a vulnerability, we need to take action to mitigate the risk, so let’s look at some of the techniques or controls that we can use.

Reconfigure Endpoint Security Solutions

When technologies change or we suffer a data breach, we might have to reconfigure the endpoint security solutions. We are going to look at these types of configurations in the following sections, starting with an application approved list

Application Approved List

We can use application whitelisting where the approved applications are listed. This means that if an application is not listed, it cannot be launched. Some devices such as pf-sense have Allowed Lists. For the purposes of the Security+ exam, if we want to prevent users from installing applications or prevent malware from installing, we will create a whitelist. Neither the unauthorized applications nor the malware will be on the...