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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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Domain 4: Security Operations

Chapter 14, Given a scenario, apply common security techniques to computing resources, covers securing computing resources through secure baselines, hardening targets, wireless security settings, and application security.

Chapter 15, Explain the security implications of proper hardware, software, and data asset management, discusses the implications of asset management in security, focusing on acquisition, monitoring, and disposal processes.

Chapter 16, Explain various activities associated with vulnerability management, details activities in vulnerability management including identification methods, analysis, response, and reporting.

Chapter 17, Explain security alerting and monitoring concepts and tools, explores concepts and tools for security alerting and monitoring like SCAP, SIEM, antivirus, and DLP.

Chapter 18, Given a scenario, modify enterprise capabilities to enhance security, focuses on modifying enterprise security capabilities using tools and strategies like firewalls, IDS/IPS, web filters, and secure protocols.

Chapter 19, Given a scenario, implement and maintain identity and access management, discusses implementation and maintenance of identity and access management, including multifactor authentication and password concepts.

Chapter 20, Explain the importance of automation and orchestration related to secure operations, highlights the role of automation and orchestration in security operations, discussing use cases, benefits, and other considerations.

Chapter 21, Explain appropriate incident response activities, details the processes and activities involved in incident response, including preparation, analysis, containment, and recovery.

Chapter 22, Given a scenario, use data sources to support an investigation, discusses using various data sources like log data and automated reports to support security investigations.