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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

By : Mark Birch
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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

By: Mark Birch

Overview of this book

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) ensures that security practitioners stay on top of the ever-changing security landscape. The CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the CompTIA CAS-004 exam so you can take it with confidence, fully equipped to pass on the first attempt. Written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment questions, exam tips, and mock exams with detailed explanations, this book covers security architecture, security operations, security engineering, cryptography, governance, risk, and compliance. You'll begin by developing the skills to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. Moving on, you'll discover how to monitor and detect security incidents, implement incident response, and use automation to proactively support ongoing security operations. The book also shows you how to apply security practices in the cloud, on-premises, to endpoints, and to mobile infrastructure. Finally, you'll understand the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements throughout the enterprise. By the end of this CASP study guide, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 certification exam and have a handy reference guide.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Security Architecture
6
Section 2: Security Operations
11
Section 3: Security Engineering and Cryptography
16
Section 4: Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Chapter 8: Implementing Incident Response and Forensics Procedures

When considering all the threats that can impact an organization, it is important to ensure there are policies and procedures in place to deal with unplanned security-related events. To ensure timely responses to security incidents, we should implement detailed planning to provide controls and mitigation. It is important, given the nature of sophisticated, well-funded adversaries, that we use a holistic approach when deploying appropriate threat detection capabilities. Some approaches may involve automation, which can lead to occasional mistakes (false positives and false negatives), so it is important that we also ensure we include humans in the loop. The ever-increasing complexity of attacks and a large security footprint add to these challenges. There is also evidence that Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors are likely to target vulnerable organizations. Countering APTs may require that we use advanced forensics...