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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

Responses

When we have many security tools to guard our networks, it is important that we use automation to identify events and where possible to provide an automated response. This frees up the security operation center (SOC) staff to be able to take on board other useful security tasks. Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) is a modern approach to respond to real-time threats and alerts. Playbooks can be used to create or provide an automated response. A playbook could be a simple ruleset or a complex set of actions.

Firewall rules

Firewall rules are important to have in place, as they protect your perimeter network services placed in your Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Firewall rules will also protect your internal resources when deployed as host-based firewalls. Firewall rules may be modified based upon a changing threat landscape and new adversaries. Bad actor IP address ranges may need to be updated on your firewalls.

Intrusion prevention system and intrusion...