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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

Examining cloud storage models

An enterprise will typically create and manage increasingly large volumes of heterogeneous data. We would expect the finance team to store spreadsheets and use finance databases, marketing may create promotional video clips, while transport and logistics planning will need access to graphing and locational data.

This mix of data types means that a single data store is usually not the most efficient approach. Instead, it's more effective to store different types of data in different data stores, each optimized for a specific workload or usage pattern. Therefore, it's important to understand the main storage models and the pros and cons of each model.

File-based storage

These are regular files that are used in a traditional client-server model. Examples would be user-mapped drives accessing shared folders on a NAS device or a file server. Other file types could be VMs hosted by a hypervisor platform.

Database storage

Databases...