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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

Intelligence types

Gathering threat intelligence is important as this will allow security professionals to be proactive and equipped to meet the challenges of cyberattacks. We will look at tactical, strategic, and operational intelligence. From a practical point of view, we also need to understand what tools are available to gather this knowledge.

Tactical intelligence

Tactical threat intelligence gathering would be performed primarily by security experts and analysts. It is primarily focused on short-term objectives. This would be the job of the Security Operations Center (SOC) staff who would analyze feeds from multiple security tools, including Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems. To gather tactical intelligence, we can use threat feeds and open source and closed source/proprietary feeds, depending upon the business. Tactical intelligence will use real-time events and technical analysis to understand adversaries and their tools and tactics. We need the...