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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 5: Threat and Vulnerability Management

In this chapter, we will primarily deal with security operation center activities. Security professionals need to identify different types of threats. Insider threats and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) are two of the biggest threats currently targeting government departments and commercial organizations. It is important to understand the threat actor skills and motivations, and also the resources that they have available to them – how much time can they afford to spend planning attacks? What is their level of financial backing? How sophisticated are the attackers? Is money an objective of the attack (for example, ransomware is nearly always about financial gain)? We need to use threat frameworks to understand how to recognize threats and respond. It is important for security professionals to be able to identify indicators of compromise, and within our security operations center, we also need to respond using a variety of techniques...