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CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Certification Guide - Third Edition

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Certification Guide - Third Edition

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

Building on the success of its bestselling predecessor, this third edition of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Certification Guide serves as your one-stop resource for SY0-701 exam preparation. Written by cybersecurity expert Ian Neil, this comprehensive guide helps you unlock the intricacies of cybersecurity and understand the technology behind the SY0-701 certification, ensuring you approach the exam with confidence. By exploring cybersecurity in detail, this book introduces essential principles, controls, and best practices. The chapters are carefully structured to align with the exam objectives of the 701 update, bringing to you the most recent and relevant exam study material. By mastering cybersecurity fundamentals, you’ll acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and mitigate threats, manage vulnerabilities, and safeguard enterprise infrastructure. You’ll be well equipped to apply the principles of security governance and compliance, conduct risk assessments, and excel in audit and assessment tasks. The book also contains mock exams and flashcards to help reinforce your learning and assess your exam-readiness. Whether you aim to excel the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, advance your career in cybersecurity, or enhance your existing knowledge, this book will transform you into a cybersecurity expert.
Table of Contents (38 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Domain 1: General Security Concepts
2
Chapter 1: Compare and contrast various types of security controls
4
Chapter 3: Explain the importance of change management processes and the impact to security
6
Domain 2: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations
7
Chapter 5: Compare and contrast common threat actors and motivations
12
Domain 3: Security Architecture
14
Chapter 11: Given a scenario, apply security principles to secure enterprise infrastructure
17
Domain 4: Security Operations
19
Chapter 15: Explain the security implications of proper hardware, software, and data asset management
26
Chapter 22: Given a scenario, use data sources to support an investigation
27
Domain 5: Security Program Management and Oversight
30
Chapter 25: Explain the processes associated with third-party risk assessment and management
32
Chapter 27: Explain types and purposes of audits and assessments
35
Solutions
36
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Reporting and Monitoring

Monitoring and reporting on the completion and effectiveness of security training is important, ensuring that employees are aware of the security needs of a company and are actively engaged in any required actions. Before you can do this, however, there needs to be a plan in place that will help you create and assess the training program itself, ensuring that it meets its intended goals. I have developed a framework that should be adopted to get the greatest benefits when delivering the training.

As shown in Figure 28.1, it starts with goals and needs, moves on to the development of the training, and then the delivery and feedback, and finally, data from the monitoring phase can be fed back into the goals and needs to refine the training.

Figure 28.1: A security awareness practices framework

Figure 28.1: A security awareness practices framework

As you can see in Figure 28.1, this framework consists of the following stages:

  1. Goals/Needs: For a new training course...