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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

Hunts

A hunt team will be tasked with discovering IOCs and APTs. The goal will be to discover previous attacks and attacks in progress and prevent future attacks by gathering threat intelligence. Forensics techniques and access to historical logged data can be used.

Developing countermeasures

Once security professionals have identified tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), we can use this information to build better defenses. Known blocks of bad actor IP addresses can be blocked, rules can be updated on Network Intrusion Prevention (NIP), Remote Triggered Blackhole (RTBH) rules can be created, as well as many other countermeasures.

Deceptive technologies

There are tools and technologies that can be used to delay or divert attackers while at the same time gathering useful threat intelligence. This includes the following techniques.

Honeynet

A honeynet is a collection of systems and services set up to simulate a vulnerable network. The goal will be to divert the...