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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

Frameworks

An attack framework is very useful to allow us to understand the tools, the tactics, and the techniques attackers will use to launch successful attacks. Security professionals must be able to understand how they plan their attacks right from the initial reconnaissance through to completion of the attack. We will cover some of the industry-accepted approaches in this section.

MITRE adversarial tactics, techniques, and common knowledge (ATT&CK)

MITRE is a not-for-profit organization. It was founded in 1958, primarily as an organization to support government and industry. Many of the current members come from industry (for example, Microsoft and Fujitsu are current members). MITRE receives government funding to carry out research and is well known for its published attack frameworks and tactics. The matrices are created to understand the tactics and techniques that attackers will use against operating systems, cloud network mobility, and industrial control systems...