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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have understood why an organization needs to conduct high-level planning to ensure appropriate mitigation controls are deployed. We have learned about why plans are developed for business continuity. We have understood what is needed in a DRP. We have looked at high availability, redundancy, and fault tolerance, when critical services need to be available. We have looked at the business need for alternate sites, as well as physical locations and the services delivered by CSPs. We have learned why automation should be used in an effort to become more resilient. Knowledge has been acquired about bootstrapping, which can be used for the rapid deployment of workloads using scripting for custom configuration. We have looked at cloud-based autoscaling, allowing an enterprise to deploy workloads on demand to satisfy customer demands. We have looked at CDNs for low latency and the increased availability of services. We have looked at the need for the thorough testing...