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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, you have gained an understanding of the security considerations when hosting data on-premises and off-premises. You learned how an enterprise will implement secure resource provisioning and deprovisioning, and the differences between type 1 and type 2 hypervisors. We then looked at containerization and learned how to choose an appropriate cloud deployment model. Then we learned the differences between the different cloud service models and gained an understanding of micro-segmentation and VPC peering, which will help us to select the correct storage model based on the storage technologies offered by cloud providers.

In this chapter, you have acquired the following skills:

  • An understanding of how to implement data loss prevention
  • An understanding of how to implement data loss detection
  • An understanding of what is meant by data protection
  • An understanding of how to implement secure cloud and virtualization solutions
  • An understanding...