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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

Threat actor properties

When building up a picture of an adversary, it is important to understand what motivates them, what backing they have, and what approaches they may use.

Resources

The resources available to a threat actor can make a big difference to the effectiveness of the attack. Government-sponsored threat actors working in large teams will have lots of available resources, including sophisticated hardware and software tools. They have access to money, time, skilled people, intelligence, and so on. They can deploy personnel physically to perform reconnaissance missions. They can also access intelligence gathered by other government agencies.

Time

Nation-states or organized crime threat actors are full-time professional hackers (it's their job); they are not doing this as a hobby. Another consideration is the amount of time that they have access to your systems for. APTs may be in place for months or years without an organization's knowledge. This means...