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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

Actor types

Organizations must consider threats from many different sources, from the unsophisticated script kiddie to government-sponsored attacks involving nation-state actors. We must also consider attacks from cybercriminals – at present, organized crime is the fastest-growing adversary. In over half of reported cases, major information system breaches can be attributed to insiders. We will highlight these threat actors in the following section.

Advanced persistent threat – nation-state

APTs are persistent in nature and have a strong determination to compromise your systems, typically using advanced techniques, and often have access to high-level resources (nation-states).

As APTs are difficult to detect and highly sophisticated, they may remain unknown for many months or years.

Cybersecurity professionals have labeled all the known adversaries and collected evidence of tools and activities undertaken by these adversaries. There are over 30 known APT groups...