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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

Using forensic analysis tools

Now that we have a good understanding of the types of evidence that can be collected and the analysis that can be performed, we must assemble a forensic tool kit. We must ensure that the tools that we are using are recognized as valid tools and make sure that they are used correctly. For example, to capture a forensic image of a storage device, we need a tool that performs a bit-by-bit copy. We would not use the same tool that allows us to prepare images/templates for distributing an operating system. In this section, we will identify common tools that are used for forensics analysis.

File carving tools

These tools allow a forensics investigator to search a live system or a forensic image for hidden or deleted files, file fragments, and their contents. Two tools are suitable for this process, shown as follows.

foremost

foremost allows you to retrieve various file types that have been deleted from the filesystem. It will search for file fragments...